Re: [PATCH v4] ARM: imx: Added perf functionality to mmdc driver

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Sun Sep 04 2016 - 22:35:26 EST


On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:00:29PM -0500, Zhengyu Shen wrote:
> MMDC is a multi-mode DDR controller that supports DDR3/DDR3L x16/x32/x64
> and LPDDR2 two channel x16/x32 memory types. MMDC is configurable, high
> performance, and optimized. MMDC is present on i.MX6 Quad and i.MX6
> QuadPlus devices, but this driver only supports i.MX6 Quad at the moment.
> MMDC provides registers for performance counters which read via this
> driver to help debug memory throughput and similar issues.
>
> $ perf stat -a -e mmdc/busy-cycles/,mmdc/read-accesses/,mmdc/read-bytes/,mmdc/total-cycles/,mmdc/write-accesses/,mmdc/write-bytes/ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5000
> Performance counter stats for 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=5000':
>
> 898021787 mmdc/busy-cycles/
> 14819600 mmdc/read-accesses/
> 471.30 MB mmdc/read-bytes/
> 2815419216 mmdc/total-cycles/
> 13367354 mmdc/write-accesses/
> 427.76 MB mmdc/write-bytes/
>
> 5.334757334 seconds time elapsed
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhengyu Shen <zhengyu.shen@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frank Li <frank.li@xxxxxxx>

I'm fine with this version, but still want a Reviewed-by tag from Mark
to apply the patch.

Shawn