Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] media: hantro: Reduce H264 extra space for motion vectors

[Tomasz Figa]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:10 AM Jonas Karlman <jonas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2020-01-08 13:59, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:11 AM Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2019-11-20 at 21:44 +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> >>> Hi Jonas,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:34 AM Jonas Karlman <jonas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> A decoded 8-bit 4:2:0 frame need memory for up to 448 bytes per
> >>>> macroblock with additional 32 bytes on multi-core variants.
> >>>>
> >>>> Memory layout is as follow:
> >>>>
> >>>> +---------------------------+
> >>>>> Y-plane   256 bytes x MBs |
> >>>> +---------------------------+
> >>>>> UV-plane  128 bytes x MBs |
> >>>> +---------------------------+
> >>>>> MV buffer  64 bytes x MBs |
> >>>> +---------------------------+
> >>>>> MC sync          32 bytes |
> >>>> +---------------------------+
> >>>>
> >>>> Reduce the extra space allocated now that motion vector buffer offset no
> >>>> longer is based on the extra space.
> >>>>
> >>>> Only allocate extra space for 64 bytes x MBs of motion vector buffer
> >>>> and 32 bytes for multi-core sync.
> >>>>
> >>>> Fixes: a9471e25629b ("media: hantro: Add core bits to support H264 decoding")
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>> Changes in v3:
> >>>>   - add memory layout to code comment (Boris)
> >>>> Changes in v2:
> >>>>   - updated commit message
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  drivers/staging/media/hantro/hantro_v4l2.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
> >>>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for the patch!
> >>>
> >>> What platform did you test it on and how? Was it tested with IOMMU enabled?
> >>
> >> Hello Tomasz,
> >>
> >> Please note that this series has been picked-up and is merged
> >> in v5.5-rc1.
> >>
> >> IIRC, we tested these patches on RK3399 and RK3288 (that means
> >> with an IOMMU). I've just ran some more extensive tests on RK3288,
> >> on media/master; and I plan to test some more on RK3399 later this week.
> >>
> >> Do you have any specific concern in mind?
> >
> > I specifically want to know whether we're 100% sure that those sizes
> > are correct. The IOMMU still works on page granularity so it's
> > possible that the allocation could be just big enough by luck.
>
> One of my RK3288 TRM [1] contains the following:
>
> Direct mode motion vector write:
>   Its base addr is right after decode output picture data
>   Its length is mbwidth*mbheight*64
>
> Also both the mpp library and imx-vpu-hantro code both use mbwidth*mbheight*64.
> So I feel confident that the buffer size is correct.
>
> [1] Rockchip RK3288TRM V1.1 Part3-Graphic and multi-media.pdf

Fair enough. Thanks!

Best regards,
Tomasz