RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block

[phoronix]

Phoronix: RADV Vulkan Driver Begins Wiring Up Support For Radeon's SQ Thread Trace Block

On top of the Mesa "RADV" Vulkan driver's recent support for using the Radeon GPU Profiler with this open-source driver, RADV is now adding support for the SQTT hardware block on Radeon GPUs for expanding the profiling metrics it is able to expose...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=RADV-SQTT-Profiling-Support

[nuetzel]

Hello @Samuel,

what else is needed, that we could trace SotTR?
Even the integrated benchmark show some huge hickup during the start of the second scene (jungle).
Polaris 20, here.

[hakzsam]

Hello @Samuel,

what else is needed, that we could trace SotTR?
Even the integrated benchmark show some huge hickup during the start of the second scene (jungle).
Polaris 20, here.

At this point, SQTT support is still experimental and only supported on GFX9. I'm working on some improvements. I think it should be usable in the next few weeks.

[agd5f]

Hello @Samuel,

what else is needed, that we could trace SotTR?
Even the integrated benchmark show some huge hickup during the start of the second scene (jungle).
Polaris 20, here.

You can use AMDVLK to trace it today if you want to play with RGP.

[nuetzel]

You can use AMDVLK to trace it today if you want to play with RGP.

Ah yes, sure Alex...
...then I have to try AMDVLK for the first time.

Thanks to both of you!