GPU Utilization not displayed on R9 FuryX/Nano.

[colesdav]

Hi,
First of all thank you for creating the GUI.
I am running Radeon Profile on Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iro19Yldd2Y
GPU Utilization is not reported.
Any ideas why not?

CPU = i7-4790K.
GPU1 = R9 Fury X.
GPU2 = R9 Nano.
MB = Asus Z97 Deluxe.
SSHD = 2TB Seagate.

Thanks.

[colesdav]

I looked at the code and it looks like an attempt is made to launch a separate CPU Thread to interrogate gpu usage information to avoid lag and performance issues in the GUI.

Searching the issues list earlier I can see the following post regarding issue #77

Specifically the following very helpful statement

"lhorace commented on Mar 11 •

@mainmachine In regards to the original OP's issue, his distribution of glxinfo thrown a glxinfo usage error because he is missing -B. Additionally, his GPU Usage icon is missing, and I don't know his glxinfo is the cause for it.

As far as GPU usage is concerned, that's still broken, originally radeon-profile was stating /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info for GPU usage but unfortunately as a side effect, it caused stutter in 3D games. Last I read, the developer was still having issues greping GPU usage via libdrm and I haven't seen much commits from him in awhile now.
See #54 and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101182"

Next Steps

• Thank lhorace for posting that information - it has saved me lots of time.
• Investigate Don't read amdgpu_pm_info anymore #54
• Investigate GPU usage always 0% #70
• Post summary information to AMD Community Forum Thread.

[colesdav]

Here is my response to lhorace and the summary which is: wait for a new Linux 4.19 Kernel Patch.

Hi,

Thank you for your summary of GPU usage problem.
I have been trying to get Radeon Profile to run on Ubuntu 16.04LTS with AMDGPU/PRO 18.10 drivers and ROCm install. I installed rocm-smi as well but it does not report GPU Utilization.

I tried Radeon Profile GUI - which I think AMD should point to since they do not provide a GUI in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for 2 years.

I had a few problems getting the correct version of Qt installed and a few other compile issues, however I show it running here: https://youtu.be/iro19Yldd2Y?t=135

Reading #70
It looks like a new Linux kernel patch will be released to expose GPU usage information in future:

"A patch has been submitted to expose GPU usage via Sysfs: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2018-June/023283.html It would likely appear in Linux 4.19.
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Bye.

[marazmista]

Hi, thanks for your investigation and effort.
It looks like this patch has been merged into 4.19, so after release of -rc1 I will take a look and try to implement this.

[colesdav]

Hello, Thank you so much for replying and looking into this further.
I really appreciate your efforts on this.

Do you have a Patreon Page so people could sponsor your work?
I think you may have an opportunity here with this Radeon Profile Software.

With the advent of Steam Play Beta and the general unhappiness I have seen with Windows 10 over past 2 years I think the need for a Radeon Adrenalin type GUI may increase rapidly.
I think many people will start to move to Linux from Windows 10 now.

I have been testing Steam Play Beta over the past week.
I was asked to look at testing Fedora 28 with latest Mesa 3.0 devel drivers.

Here are a few games that run very well indeed on Fedora 28 with latest MESA 3.0 devel drivers.

1. Monster Hunter World.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOIsF8g5EJQ
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBfPz0_5WI

2. Hellblade Sensua's Sacrifice.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFZhieTb798
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDexxpwc7yY

3. MURDERED: Soul Suspect:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csSe8f7_LAQ

4. Crysis 2: Maximum Edition:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIonDcl7yCw
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaRXjReeinU

There are many more.
Also some impressive games run natively on Linux already:

5. Rise of the Tomb Raider
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7d6t36R_Nw

As you will see at my Youtube page from I have tested many other games already.

I tried to install Radeon Profile on Fedora 28 before I ran the Steam Play Beta testing.
I wanted to be able to show it running and working in the testing videos if possible and also use it to monitor the GPU performance.
I hit a few problems during compile.
The compilation reported some files as missing.
I tried using some files that were already on my Ubuntu 16.04 installation, and the compile did get further. But I had to push on with the Steam Play Beta testing asap.
Could you please tell me if you think there is ant way I could get Radeon Proifile running on Fedora 28? Should I open an issue report on that or is it pointless?

Please note there is no AMDGPU/PRO now known as "Radeon™ Software for Linux® 18.30" driver support from AMD specifically for Fedora 28.

I note that AMD have now implemented some basic Wattman Type functionality in their "Radeon™ Software for Linux® 18.30" driver

It says the following in the Release Notes:
"Added preliminary Wattman-like functionality; please refer to the sample script included in the /examples folder of the amdgpu-dkms package for more information. "

I have not installed that on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 yet, but when I do I will post some information about it here.

As far as I see it, AMD will not have a working GUI for Linux for some time.

Perhaps if you modded the Radeon Profile GUI to 'look' like a bit more like the Adrenalin GUI, and concentrated on making sure it works on Ubuntu & Fedora then maybe many people would adopt Radeon-Profile and enough momentum would be there that AMD would work with you to promote it / help fund your work on Patreon?

I think there should be a pointer to Radeon-Profile on AMD GPUOpen (https://gpuopen.com/).

Thanks again for all of your work on this.

Bye.

[TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness]

@colesdav: Is your problem fixed since e870733, by chance?

[Podesta]

@x0rg problem persists for me on a RX580. Made the comment on #77, since I'm not sure if this issue is specific to the R9 or not.

[Oxalin]

@Podesta Please update status according to #77