Announcing radeontop, a tool for viewing the GPU usage

[frief]

Add CPU usage as well so that it can be seen at a glance whether it's CPU or GPU bound?

[curaga]

There's already a similar tool for intel, that's the inspiration for this one.

Yep, and what is exposed varies by hw.

[curaga]

Add CPU usage as well so that it can be seen at a glance whether it's CPU or GPU bound?

Out of scope really, just use top/vmstat/etc/etc in another window

[curaga]

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Barts XT [ATI Radeon HD 6800 Series]
09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RV710 [Radeon HD 4550]

I use the second one for displaying my desktop.

Please try 0.5.4 with the --bus option. Ie "radeontop -b 9" to pick the second card.

[Xaseron]

Works. Great work!!!

[jarodcanal]

No ouput for RS880 with v0.5.4

Hi,

I am running Xubuntu 12.04 (I enclose details about my system at the end of the message).
I am using the open source radeon driver.
My AMD video card is a RS880, it is a HD4290 integrated in ASUS motherboard.
I downloaded, (installed libpciaccess-dev) , and compiled radeontop.
But when I run it, all the counters show 0.00% forever (the top title says "radeontop v0.5.4, running on RS880, 120 samples/sec").
Could it be a bug with integrated R600 chipset?
Thanks
Regards

System Software / Hardware Information

Hardware:
Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 610e @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO/USB3, Chipset: AMD RS880, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

Software:
OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-3-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.8, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024


dmesg | grep radeon
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-3-generic root=UUID=e2da3456-41b1-41be-a07c-e0d9abef305e ro radeon.audio=1 quiet splash vt.handoff=7
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-3-generic root=UUID=e2da3456-41b1-41be-a07c-e0d9abef305e ro radeon.audio=1 quiet splash vt.handoff=7
[ 9.007878] [drm] radeon defaulting to kernel modesetting.
[ 9.007881] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 9.008926] radeon 0000:01:05.0: VRAM: 624M 0x00000000C0000000 - 0x00000000E6FFFFFF (624M used)
[ 9.008928] radeon 0000:01:05.0: GTT: 512M 0x00000000A0000000 - 0x00000000BFFFFFFF
[ 9.009478] [drm] radeon: 624M of VRAM memory ready
[ 9.009480] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 9.009515] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 9.096860] radeon 0000:01:05.0: WB enabled
[ 9.096864] radeon 0000:01:05.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x00000000a0000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff880203056c00
[ 9.097094] radeon 0000:01:05.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 9.134587] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
[ 9.189317] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[ 9.189460] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[ 9.189469] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.17.0 20080528 for 0000:01:05.0 on minor 0


lsmod | grep radeon
radeon 908548 2
ttm 88492 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 46931 1 radeon
drm 277056 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13564 2 bttv,radeon

[entropy]

But when I run it, all the counters show 0.00% forever (the top title says "radeontop v0.5.4, running on RS880, 120 samples/sec").

Not playing Captain Obvious: Are you sure the 3D engine is busy?

I'm not using a compositor WM.
So unless I start, i.e., glxgears all counters are at 0% as well.

[jarodcanal]

Hi,
Actually, I run glxgears in parallel before posting on the thread, and radeontop keep reporting 0.00% for everything on my system.
Could it be that all 3d stuff is done by software instead of using HD4290?
The phoronix test suite info I included states that the driver in use is "vesa", maybe it should be "radeon" to get some 3D acceleration?
How could I check that?
Thanks
Regards

with glxgear i get lines like:
1563 frames in 5.0 seconds = 312.579 FPS

glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_create_context, GLX_ARB_create_context_profile,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_INTEL_swap_event
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_OML_swap_method,
GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multisample, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_texture,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_ARB_point_parameters,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters,
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays,
GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,
GL_INGR_blend_func_separate, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_light_max_exponent,
GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_S3_s3tc,
GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_EXT_framebuffer_object,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil,
GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_occlusion_query,
GL_ARB_shadow, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_APPLE_vertex_array_object,
GL_ARB_draw_buffers, GL_ARB_fragment_program, GL_ARB_fragment_shader,
GL_ARB_shader_objects, GL_ARB_vertex_program, GL_ARB_vertex_shader,
GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_float,
GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_MESA_pack_invert,
GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_NV_primitive_restart,
GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_half_float_pixel,
GL_ARB_occlusion_query2, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shading_language_100,
GL_ARB_sync, GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object,
GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate, GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate,
GL_OES_read_format, GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc, GL_ARB_texture_float,
GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc,
GL_EXT_packed_float, GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1, GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc,
GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
GL_EXT_texture_sRGB, GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent,
GL_ARB_framebuffer_object, GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit,
GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample, GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil,
GL_ARB_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_separate_stencil,
GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_EXT_draw_buffers2, GL_EXT_draw_instanced,
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters, GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc,
GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode, GL_OES_EGL_image, GL_ARB_copy_buffer,
GL_ARB_draw_instanced, GL_ARB_half_float_vertex, GL_ARB_instanced_arrays,
GL_ARB_map_buffer_range, GL_ARB_texture_rg, GL_ARB_texture_swizzle,
GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra, GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects,
GL_EXT_texture_swizzle, GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra,
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend,
GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility, GL_ARB_debug_output, GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend,
GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex, GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location,
GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions, GL_ARB_provoking_vertex,
GL_ARB_sampler_objects, GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod,
GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev, GL_EXT_provoking_vertex,
GL_EXT_texture_snorm, GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba, GL_ARB_robustness,
GL_ARB_texture_storage

96 GLX Visuals

[bridgman]

At first glance that looks like software rendering (on the CPU). There should be a renderer line mentioning Gallium.

EDIT -- whoops, it was Gallium but not Gallium with HW acceleration

You need to be running the radeon driver to get 3D HW acceleration.

[entropy]

Hi,
Actually, I run glxgears in parallel before posting on the thread, and radeontop keep reporting 0.00% for everything on my system.
Could it be that all 3d stuff is done by software instead of using HD4290?

Indeed, you're running LLVMpipe.

OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.1-devel
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

You want something similar to this:

OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880

Since I don't use Ubuntu, I'm probably not much of help when it comes to package names.
Nevertheless, this looks helpful: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver