Re: [PATCH 20/20] interconnect: qcom: Divide clk rate by src node bus width

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

On 1.06.2023 15:23, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 02:43:50PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 30.05.2023 21:02, Stephan Gerhold wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 06:32:04PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>> On 30.05.2023 12:20, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>>>>> Ever since the introduction of SMD RPM ICC, we've been dividing the
>>>>> clock rate by the wrong bus width. This has resulted in:
>>>>>
>>>>> - setting wrong (mostly too low) rates, affecting performance
>>>>>   - most often /2 or /4
>>>>>   - things like DDR never hit their full potential
>>>>>   - the rates were only correct if src bus width == dst bus width
>>>>>     for all src, dst pairs on a given bus
>>>>>
>>>>> - Qualcomm using the same wrong logic in their BSP driver in msm-5.x
>>>>>   that ships in production devices today
>>>>>
>>>>> - me losing my sanity trying to find this
>>>>>
>>>>> Resolve it by using dst_qn, if it exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: 5e4e6c4d3ae0 ("interconnect: qcom: Add QCS404 interconnect provider driver")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@linaro.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>> The problem is deeper.
>>>>
>>>> Chatting with Stephan (+CC), we tackled a few issues (that I will send
>>>> fixes for in v2):
>>>>
>>>> 1. qcom_icc_rpm_set() should take per-node (src_qn->sum_avg, dst_qn->sum_avg)
>>>>    and NOT aggregated bw (unless you want ALL of your nodes on a given provider
>>>>    to "go very fast")
>>>>
>>>> 2. the aggregate bw/clk rate calculation should use the node-specific bus widths
>>>>    and not only the bus width of the src/dst node, otherwise the average bw
>>>>    values will be utterly meaningless
>>>>
>>>
>>> The peak bandwidth / clock rate is wrong as well if you have two paths
>>> with different buswidths on the same bus/NoC. (If someone is interested
>>> in details I can post my specific example I had in the chat, it shows
>>> this more clearly.)
>> agg_peak takes care of that, I believe..
>>
> 
> I was just nitpicking on your description here, I think the solution
> you/we had in mind was already correct. :)
> 
>>
>>>
>>>> 3. thanks to (1) and (2) qcom_icc_bus_aggregate() can be remodeled to instead
>>>>    calculate the clock rates for the two rpm contexts, which we can then max()
>>>>    and pass on to the ratesetting call
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds good.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----8<---- Cutting off Stephan's seal of approval, this is my thinking ----
>>>>
>>>> 4. I *think* Qualcomm really made a mistake in their msm-5.4 driver where they
>>>>    took most of the logic from the current -next state and should have been
>>>>    setting the rate based on the *DST* provider, or at least that's my
>>>>    understanding trying to read the "known good" msm-4.19 driver
>>>>    (which remembers msm-3.0 lol).. Or maybe we should keep src but ensure there's
>>>>    also a final (dst, dst) vote cast:
>>>>
>>>> provider->inter_set = false // current state upstream
>>>>
>>>> setting apps_proc<->slv_bimc_snoc
>>>> setting mas_bimc_snoc<->slv_snoc_cnoc
>>>> setting mas_snoc_cnoc<->qhs_sdc2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> provider->inter_set = true // I don't think there's effectively a difference?
>>>>
>>>> setting apps_proc<->slv_bimc_snoc
>>>> setting slv_bimc_snoc<->mas_bimc_snoc
>>>> setting mas_bimc_snoc<->slv_snoc_cnoc
>>>> setting slv_snoc_cnoc<->mas_snoc_cnoc
>>>> setting mas_snoc_cnoc<->qhs_sdc2
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think with our proposed changes above it does no longer matter if a
>>> node is passed as "src" or "dst". This means in your example above you
>>> just waste additional time setting the bandwidth twice for
>>> slv_bimc_snoc, mas_bimc_snoc, slv_snoc_cnoc and mas_snoc_cnoc.
>>> The final outcome is the same with or without "inter_set".
>> Yeah I guess due to the fact that two "real" nodes are always
>> connected by a set of "gateway" nodes, the rate will be applied..
>>
>> I am however not sure if we're supposed to set the bandwidth
>> (via qcom_icc_rpm_set()) on all of them..
>>
> 
> I think so? The nodes RPM doesn't care about shouldn't have
> a slv/mas_rpm_id.
Hm I guess the inter_set doesn't make a difference anyway, as you
pointed out.. Thankfully one thing less to fix :D

Konrad