Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] PM / devfreq: Add devfreq driver for interconnect bandwidth voting
From: Sibi Sankar
Date: Mon Sep 10 2018 - 14:55:36 EST
Hi Georgi,
This driver uses of_icc_get which is very likely to fail if it probes
before the interconnect provider. Would it be possible for icc_get to
return/differentiate both -EPROBE_DEFER and other errors to prevent the
driver to continually probe defer if the path doesn't actually exist
or just error out if it probes before the interconnect provider.
On 2018-08-23 18:30, Georgi Djakov wrote:
Hi Saravana,
On 08/02/2018 03:57 AM, Saravana Kannan wrote:
This driver registers itself as a devfreq device that allows devfreq
governors to make bandwidth votes for an interconnect path. This
allows
applying various policies for different interconnect paths using
devfreq
governors.
Example uses:
* Use the devfreq performance governor to set the CPU to DDR
interconnect
path for maximum performance.
* Use the devfreq performance governor to set the GPU to DDR
interconnect
path for maximum performance.
* Use the CPU frequency to device frequency mapping governor to scale
the
DDR frequency based on the needs of the CPUs' current frequency.
Usually CPUs and GPUs have dedicated cpufreq/devfreq drivers and i was
wondering if the interconnect support could be put into these drivers
directly?
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/icbw.txt | 21 ++++
drivers/devfreq/Kconfig | 13 +++
drivers/devfreq/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/devfreq/devfreq_icbw.c | 116
+++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 151 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/icbw.txt
create mode 100644 drivers/devfreq/devfreq_icbw.c
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/icbw.txt
b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/icbw.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36cf045
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/icbw.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Interconnect bandwidth device
+
+icbw is a device that represents an interconnect path that connects
two
+devices. This device is typically used to vote for BW requirements
between
+two devices. Eg: CPU to DDR, GPU to DDR, etc
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: Must be "devfreq-icbw"
+- interconnects: Pairs of phandles and interconnect provider
specifier
+ to denote the edge source and destination ports of
+ the interconnect path. See also:
+ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interconnect/interconnect.txt
+- interconnect-names: Must have one entry with the name "path".
+
+Example:
+
+ qcom,cpubw {
+ compatible = "devfreq-icbw";
+ interconnects = <&snoc MASTER_APSS_1 &bimc SLAVE_EBI_CH0>;
+ interconnect-names = "path";
interconnect-names is optional when there is only a single path.
+ };
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/Kconfig b/drivers/devfreq/Kconfig
index 3d9ae68..590370e 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/Kconfig
@@ -121,6 +121,19 @@ config ARM_RK3399_DMC_DEVFREQ
It sets the frequency for the memory controller and reads
the usage counts
from hardware.
+config DEVFREQ_ICBW
+ bool "DEVFREQ device for making bandwidth votes on interconnect
paths"
Can this be a module?
+ select DEVFREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE
+ select DEVFREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE
+ select DEVFREQ_GOV_USERSPACE
+ default n
There's no need to specify this default. It is 'n' by default anyway.
Also maybe you want to add something like:
depends on INTERCONNECT=y
Thanks,
Georgi
+ help
+ Different devfreq governors use this devfreq device to make
+ bandwidth votes for interconnect paths between different devices
+ (Eg: CPU to DDR, GPU to DDR, etc). This driver provides a generic
+ interface so that the devfreq governors can be shared across SoCs
+ and architectures.
+
source "drivers/devfreq/event/Kconfig"
--
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