Re: [PATCH 5/5] ARM: dts: qcom: msm8974: add interconnect nodes

From: Georgi Djakov
Date: Thu Oct 24 2019 - 04:27:25 EST


On 24.10.19 Ð. 10:07 Ñ., Brian Masney wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 04:39:21PM +0300, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>> On 23.10.19 Ð. 15:47 Ñ., Brian Masney wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:50:19PM +0300, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>>>> On 13.10.19 Ð. 11:08 Ñ., Brian Masney wrote:
>>>>> Add interconnect nodes that's needed to support bus scaling.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <masneyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-msm8974.dtsi | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-msm8974.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-msm8974.dtsi
>>>>> @@ -1152,6 +1207,11 @@
>>>>> "core",
>>>>> "vsync";
>>>>>
>>>>> + interconnects = <&mmssnoc MNOC_MAS_GRAPHICS_3D &bimc BIMC_SLV_EBI_CH0>,
>>>>> + <&ocmemnoc OCMEM_VNOC_MAS_GFX3D &ocmemnoc OCMEM_SLV_OCMEM>;
>>>>
>>>> Who will be the requesting bandwidth to DDR and ocmem? Is it the display or GPU
>>>> or both? The above seem like GPU-related interconnects, so maybe these
>>>> properties should be in the GPU DT node.
>>>
>>> The display is what currently requests the interconnect path,
>>> specifically mdp5_setup_interconnect() in
>>> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/disp/mdp5/mdp5_kms.c. The Freedreno GPU bindings
>>> currently don't have interconnect support. Maybe this is something that
>>> I should add to that driver as well?
>>
>> The "mdp0-mem" and "mdp1-mem" paths mentioned in the mdp5_kms.c are the two
>> interconnects between the display and DDR memory.
>
> OK, I see. Most of the interconnect paths in the downstream MSM 3.4
> sources are configured in device tree using the
> qcom,msm-bus,vectors-KBps property, which is what I was only looking at
> before. The interconnect path for the display is configured directly in
> code (drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp.c) to setup a path between
> MSM_BUS_MASTER_MDP_PORT0 and MSM_BUS_SLAVE_EBI_CH0.

Correct!

>
> In the upstream kernel, it looks like I'll need to
>
> 1) add support for an optional second interconnect path for ocmem to
> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c.

Yes, just check if there is a "gpu-ocmem" path in DT and scale it when needed.

>
> 2) add implementations of gpu_get_freq and gpu_get_freq to the
> adreno_gpu_funcs struct in drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a3xx_gpu.c.
>

Maybe, i am not very familiar with adreno stuff. It might be good to CC the
freedreno guys.

Thanks,
Georgi