Re: [PATCHv7 3/3] iommu: arm-smmu-impl: Add sdm845 implementation hook

[Stephen Boyd]

Quoting Sai Prakash Ranjan (2019-09-20 01:04:29)
> From: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add reset hook for sdm845 based platforms to turn off
> the wait-for-safe sequence.
> 
> Understanding how wait-for-safe logic affects USB and UFS performance
> on MTP845 and DB845 boards:
> 
> Qcom's implementation of arm,mmu-500 adds a WAIT-FOR-SAFE logic
> to address under-performance issues in real-time clients, such as
> Display, and Camera.
> On receiving an invalidation requests, the SMMU forwards SAFE request
> to these clients and waits for SAFE ack signal from real-time clients.
> The SAFE signal from such clients is used to qualify the start of
> invalidation.
> This logic is controlled by chicken bits, one for each - MDP (display),
> IFE0, and IFE1 (camera), that can be accessed only from secure software
> on sdm845.
> 
> This configuration, however, degrades the performance of non-real time
> clients, such as USB, and UFS etc. This happens because, with wait-for-safe
> logic enabled the hardware tries to throttle non-real time clients while
> waiting for SAFE ack signals from real-time clients.
> 
> On mtp845 and db845 devices, with wait-for-safe logic enabled by the
> bootloaders we see degraded performance of USB and UFS when kernel
> enables the smmu stage-1 translations for these clients.
> Turn off this wait-for-safe logic from the kernel gets us back the perf
> of USB and UFS devices until we re-visit this when we start seeing perf
> issues on display/camera on upstream supported SDM845 platforms.
> The bootloaders on these boards implement secure monitor callbacks to
> handle a specific command - QCOM_SCM_SVC_SMMU_PROGRAM with which the
> logic can be toggled.
> 
> There are other boards such as cheza whose bootloaders don't enable this
> logic. Such boards don't implement callbacks to handle the specific SCM
> call so disabling this logic for such boards will be a no-op.
> 
> This change is inspired by the downstream change from Patrick Daly
> to address performance issues with display and camera by handling
> this wait-for-safe within separte io-pagetable ops to do TLB
> maintenance. So a big thanks to him for the change and for all the
> offline discussions.
> 
> Without this change the UFS reads are pretty slow:
> $ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=10 conv=sync
> 10+0 records in
> 10+0 records out
> 10485760 bytes (10.0MB) copied, 22.394903 seconds, 457.2KB/s
> real    0m 22.39s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     0m 0.01s
> 
> With this change they are back to rock!
> $ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=300 conv=sync
> 300+0 records in
> 300+0 records out
> 314572800 bytes (300.0MB) copied, 1.030541 seconds, 291.1MB/s
> real    0m 1.03s
> user    0m 0.00s
> sys     0m 0.54s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>