Re: [PATCH 1/1 v8] ARM: imx: Added perf functionality to mmdc driver

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Thu Oct 13 2016 - 08:49:33 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 03:17:36PM -0500, Zhi Li wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Zhi Li <lznuaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> From: Zhengyu Shen <zhengyu.shen@xxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> 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>
> >> ---
> >
> > Mark:
> > Any additional comments for this version?
> >
>
> Shawn:
> No any new comment for more than 2 weeks.
> Did you plan accept this patch?

We normally do not apply patches in the middle of a merge window. I
plan to apply it when 4.9-rc1 comes out. But I still would like to get
a Reviewed-by tag from Mark before doing that.

@Mark,

Are you happy with this version?

Shawn