Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: Add CPU BWMON

Rajendra Nayak
2022-06-28T15:20:34Z

On 6/28/2022 7:32 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 28/06/2022 15:15, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 6/28/2022 4:20 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 28/06/2022 12:36, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 6/27/2022 6:09 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>> On 26/06/2022 05:28, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu 23 Jun 07:58 CDT 2022, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 23/06/2022 08:48, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi
>>>>>>>>>>> index 83e8b63f0910..adffb9c70566 100644
>>>>>>>>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi
>>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi
>>>>>>>>>>> @@ -2026,6 +2026,60 @@ llcc: system-cache-controller@1100000 {
>>>>>>>>>>> interrupts = <GIC_SPI 582 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>>>>>>>>>>> };
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> + pmu@1436400 {
>>>>>>>>>>> + compatible = "qcom,sdm845-cpu-bwmon";
>>>>>>>>>>> + reg = <0 0x01436400 0 0x600>;
>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>> + interrupts = <GIC_SPI 581 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>> + interconnects = <&gladiator_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC 3 &mem_noc SLAVE_EBI1 3>,
>>>>>>>>>>> + <&osm_l3 MASTER_OSM_L3_APPS &osm_l3 SLAVE_OSM_L3>;
>>>>>>>>>>> + interconnect-names = "ddr", "l3c";
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is this the pmu/bwmon instance between the cpu and caches or the one between the caches and DDR?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> To my understanding this is the one between CPU and caches.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Ok, but then because the OPP table lists the DDR bw first and Cache bw second, isn't the driver
>>>>>>>> ending up comparing the bw values thrown by the pmu against the DDR bw instead of the Cache BW?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I double checked now and you're right.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Atleast with my testing on sc7280 I found this to mess things up and I always was ending up at
>>>>>>>> higher OPPs even while the system was completely idle. Comparing the values against the Cache bw
>>>>>>>> fixed it.(sc7280 also has a bwmon4 instance between the cpu and caches and a bwmon5 between the cache
>>>>>>>> and DDR)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In my case it exposes different issue - under performance. Somehow the
>>>>>>> bwmon does not report bandwidth high enough to vote for high bandwidth.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After removing the DDR interconnect and bandwidth OPP values I have for:
>>>>>>> sysbench --threads=8 --time=60 --memory-total-size=20T --test=memory
>>>>>>> --memory-block-size=4M run
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. Vanilla: 29768 MB/s
>>>>>>> 2. Vanilla without CPU votes: 8728 MB/s
>>>>>>> 3. Previous bwmon (voting too high): 32007 MB/s
>>>>>>> 4. Fixed bwmon 24911 MB/s
>>>>>>> Bwmon does not vote for maximum L3 speed:
>>>>>>> bwmon report 9408 MB/s (thresholds set: <9216000 15052801>
>>>>>>> )
>>>>>>> osm l3 aggregate 14355 MBps -> 897 MHz, level 7, bw 14355 MBps
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe that's just problem with missing governor which would vote for
>>>>>>> bandwidth rounding up or anticipating higher needs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Depending on which one it is, shouldn;t we just be scaling either one and not both the interconnect paths?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The interconnects are the same as ones used for CPU nodes, therefore if
>>>>>>>>> we want to scale both when scaling CPU, then we also want to scale both
>>>>>>>>> when seeing traffic between CPU and cache.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, they were both associated with the CPU node because with no other input to decide on _when_
>>>>>>>> to scale the caches and DDR, we just put a mapping table which simply mapped a CPU freq to a L3 _and_
>>>>>>>> DDR freq. So with just one input (CPU freq) we decided on what should be both the L3 freq and DDR freq.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Now with 2 pmu's, we have 2 inputs, so we can individually scale the L3 based on the cache PMU
>>>>>>>> counters and DDR based on the DDR PMU counters, no?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Since you said you have plans to add the other pmu support as well (bwmon5 between the cache and DDR)
>>>>>>>> how else would you have the OPP table associated with that pmu instance? Would you again have both the
>>>>>>>> L3 and DDR scale based on the inputs from that bwmon too?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Good point, thanks for sharing. I think you're right. I'll keep only the
>>>>>>> l3c interconnect path.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I understand correctly, <&osm_l3 MASTER_OSM_L3_APPS &osm_l3
>>>>>> SLAVE_OSM_L3> relates to the L3 cache speed, which sits inside the CPU
>>>>>> subsystem. As such traffic hitting this cache will not show up in either
>>>>>> bwmon instance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The path <&gladiator_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC 3 &mem_noc SLAVE_EBI1 3>
>>>>>> affects the DDR frequency. So the traffic measured by the cpu-bwmon
>>>>>> would be the CPU subsystems traffic that missed the L1/L2/L3 caches and
>>>>>> hits the memory bus towards DDR.
>>>>
>>>> That seems right, looking some more into the downstream code and register definitions
>>>> I see the 2 bwmon instances actually lie on the path outside CPU SS towards DDR,
>>>> first one (bwmon4) is between the CPUSS and LLCC (system cache) and the second one
>>>> (bwmon5) between LLCC and DDR. So we should use the counters from bwmon4 to
>>>> scale the CPU-LLCC path (and not L3), on sc7280 that would mean splitting the
>>>> <&gem_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC 3 &mc_virt SLAVE_EBI1 3> into
>>>> <&gem_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC 3 &gem_noc SLAVE_LLCC 3> (voting based on the bwmon4 inputs)
>
> For sdm845 SLAVE_LLCC is in mem_noc, so I guess mc_virt on sc7280?

thats correct,

>
>>>> and <&mc_virt MASTER_LLCC 3 &mc_virt SLAVE_EBI1 3> (voting based on the bwmon5 inputs)
>>>> and similar for sdm845 too.
>>>>
>>>> L3 should perhaps still be voted based on the cpu freq as done today.
>>>
>>> This would mean that original bandwidth values (800 - 7216 MB/s) were
>>> correct. However we have still your observation that bwmon kicks in very
>>> fast and my measurements that sampled bwmon data shows bandwidth ~20000
>>> MB/s.
>>
>> Right, thats because the bandwidth supported between the cpu<->llcc path is much higher
>> than the DDR frequencies. For instance on sc7280, I see (2288 - 15258 MB/s) for LLCC while
>> the DDR max is 8532 MB/s.
>
> OK, that sounds right.
>
> Another point is that I did not find actual scaling of throughput via
> that interconnect path:
> <&gladiator_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC 3 &mem_noc SLAVE_LLCC 3>

Shouldn't this be <&gladiator_noc MASTER_APPSS_PROC 3 &gladiator_noc SLAVE_LLCC 3> on sdm845?

>
> so I cannot test impact of bwmon that way.
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof