On 02-07-19, 18:10, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Interconnects and interconnect paths quantify their performance levels in
> terms of bandwidth and not in terms of frequency. So similar to how we have
> frequency based OPP tables in DT and in the OPP framework, we need
> bandwidth OPP table support in the OPP framework and in DT. Since there can
> be more than one interconnect path used by a device, we also need a way to
> assign a bandwidth OPP table to an interconnect path.
>
> This patch series:
> - Adds opp-peak-KBps and opp-avg-KBps properties to OPP DT bindings
> - Adds interconnect-opp-table property to interconnect DT bindings
> - Adds OPP helper functions for bandwidth OPP tables
> - Adds icc_get_opp_table() to get the OPP table for an interconnect path
>
> So with the DT bindings added in this patch series, the DT for a GPU
> that does bandwidth voting from GPU to Cache and GPU to DDR would look
> something like this:
>
> gpu_cache_opp_table: gpu_cache_opp_table {
> compatible = "operating-points-v2";
>
> gpu_cache_3000: opp-3000 {
> opp-peak-KBps = <3000>;
> opp-avg-KBps = <1000>;
> };
> gpu_cache_6000: opp-6000 {
> opp-peak-KBps = <6000>;
> opp-avg-KBps = <2000>;
> };
> gpu_cache_9000: opp-9000 {
> opp-peak-KBps = <9000>;
> opp-avg-KBps = <9000>;
> };
> };
>
> gpu_ddr_opp_table: gpu_ddr_opp_table {
> compatible = "operating-points-v2";
>
> gpu_ddr_1525: opp-1525 {
> opp-peak-KBps = <1525>;
> opp-avg-KBps = <452>;
> };
> gpu_ddr_3051: opp-3051 {
> opp-peak-KBps = <3051>;
> opp-avg-KBps = <915>;
> };
> gpu_ddr_7500: opp-7500 {
> opp-peak-KBps = <7500>;
> opp-avg-KBps = <3000>;
> };
> };
Who is going to use the above tables and how ? These are the maximum
BW available over these paths, right ?
> gpu_opp_table: gpu_opp_table {
> compatible = "operating-points-v2";
> opp-shared;
>
> opp-200000000 {
> opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <200000000>;
> };
> opp-400000000 {
> opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <400000000>;
> };
> };
Shouldn't this link back to the above tables via required-opp, etc ?
How will we know how much BW is required by the GPU device for all the
paths ?
> gpu@7864000 {
> ...
> operating-points-v2 = <&gpu_opp_table>, <&gpu_cache_opp_table>,
> <&gpu_ddr_opp_table>;
> interconnects = <&mmnoc MASTER_GPU_1 &bimc SLAVE_SYSTEM_CACHE>,
> <&mmnoc MASTER_GPU_1 &bimc SLAVE_DDR>;
> interconnect-names = "gpu-cache", "gpu-mem";
> interconnect-opp-table = <&gpu_cache_opp_table>, <&gpu_ddr_opp_table>
> };
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