Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] dt-bindings: gpu: add a power_model optional properties for MALI

Caesar Wang
2017-07-18T00:59:13Z

Rob,

在 2017年07月18日 04:07, Rob Herring 写道:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 04:14:28PM +0800, Caesar Wang wrote:
>> This patch adds the MALI's power-model to set the IPA model to be used
>> for power management.
> What's IPA? India Pale Ale or Intermediate Physical Address?

IPA is intelligent Power Allocator. (As the ARM introduced on
https://developer.arm.com/open-source/intelligent-power-allocation)

>
>> Signed-off-by: Caesar Wang <wxt@rock-chips.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2: None
>>
>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt
>> index a461e47..b616e6b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpu/arm,mali-midgard.txt
>> @@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ Optional properties:
>> - operating-points-v2 : Refer to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/power/opp.txt
>> for details.
>>
>> +- power_model : Sets power model parameters. Note that this model was designed for the Juno
>> + platform, and may not be suitable for other platforms. A structure containing :
>> + - compatible: Should be arm,mali-simple-power-model
>> + - dynamic-coefficient: Coefficient, in pW/(Hz V^2), which is multiplied
>> + by v^2*f to calculate the dynamic power consumption.
>> + - static-coefficient: Coefficient, in uW/V^3, which is multiplied by
>> + v^3 to calculate the static power consumption.
>> + - ts: An array containing coefficients for the temperature scaling
>> + factor. This is used to scale the static power by a factor of
>> + tsf/1000000, where tsf = ts[3]*T^3 + ts[2]*T^2 + ts[1]*T + ts[0],
>> + and T = temperature in degrees.
>> + - thermal-zone: A string identifying the thermal zone used for the GPU
> This can all easily be implied by the compatible string. I'm not
> inclined to accept something Mali specific here.

Isn't arm,mali-midgard.txt document suit for Mali specific? :-)

>
> This looks *very* precise, but I'd be surprised if these values are any
> more than magic values (at least the dynamic coef) adjusted until the
> desired power/performance requirements are achieved. To put it another
> way, why don't we have similar values for CPUs?

These value was calculated by running full GPU process.

CPU had the similar value for dtsi.

Say: arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi
cpu_b0: cpu@100 {
...
dynamic-power-coefficient = <436>;
...
};

-Caesar

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