Re: [PATCH 1/4] interconnect: qcom: icc-rpm: Add AB/IB calculations coefficients

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>]

On 26.07.2023 19:16, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 06:25:43PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> Presumably due to the hardware being so complex, some nodes (or busses)
>> have different (usually higher) requirements for bandwidth than what
>> the usual calculations would suggest.
>>
> 
> Weird. I just hope this was never abused to workaround other broken
> configuration. A nice round ib_percent = 200 has mostly the same effect as
> 
>   - Doubling the requested peek bandwidth in the consumer driver (perhaps
>     they were too lazy to fix the driver in downstream at some point)
>   - Halving the node buswidth
> 
> It's probably hard to say for sure...
As per usual..

[...]

>>  
>>  	/*
>> @@ -315,6 +317,12 @@ static void qcom_icc_bus_aggregate(struct icc_provider *provider, u64 *agg_clk_r
>>  			else
>>  				agg_avg_rate = qn->sum_avg[i];
>>  
>> +			percent = qp->ab_percent ? qp->ab_percent : 100;
>> +			agg_avg_rate = mult_frac(percent, agg_avg_rate, 100);
> 
> 			if (qp->ab_percent)
> 				agg_avg_rate = mult_frac(qp->ab_percent, agg_avg_rate, 100);
> 
> Would be likely more efficient (no calculation if unspecified) and not
> much harder to read.
Oh right!

> 
>> +
>> +			percent = qn->ib_percent ? qn->ib_percent : 100;
>> +			agg_peak_rate = mult_frac(percent, qn->max_peak[i], 100);
>> +
> 
> agg_peak_rate doesn't seem to be used anywhere else? 🤔
Whoooooops....

Konrad