On Friday, April 24, 2020 1:40:55 PM CEST Benjamin Gaignard wrote: > When start streaming from the sensor the CPU load could remain very low > because almost all the capture pipeline is done in hardware (i.e. without > using the CPU) and let believe to cpufreq governor that it could use lower > frequencies. If the governor decides to use a too low frequency that > becomes a problem when we need to acknowledge the interrupt during the > blanking time. > The delay to ack the interrupt and perform all the other actions before > the next frame is very short and doesn't allow to the cpufreq governor to > provide the required burst of power. That led to drop the half of the frames. > > To avoid this problem, DCMI driver informs the cpufreq governors by adding > a cpufreq minimum load QoS resquest.
This seems to be addressing a use case that can be addressed with the help of utilization clamps with less power overhead. Thanks!
