Re: [PATCH 00/10] arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: enable GICv3 ITS for PCIe

Johan Hovold
2024-02-14T11:08:57Z

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 12:05:54PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 05:50:33PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > This series addresses a few problems with the sc8280xp PCIe
> > implementation.
> >
> > The DWC PCIe controller can either use its internal MSI controller or an
> > external one such as the GICv3 ITS. Enabling the latter allows for
> > assigning affinity to individual interrupts, but results in a large
> > amount of Correctable Errors being logged on both the Lenovo ThinkPad
> > X13s and the sc8280xp-crd reference design.
> >
> > It turns out that these errors are always generated,
>
> How did you confirm this?

You can see that error flags being set in the controller and endpoint,
for example, using lspci -vv:

CESta: RxErr- BadTLP+ BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr-

> > but for some yet to
> > be determined reason, the AER interrupts are never received when using
> > the internal MSI controller, which makes the link errors harder to
> > notice.
>
> If you manually inject the errors using "aer-inject", are you not seeing the AER
> errors with internal MSI controller as well?

I haven't tried that, I'm just reporting that that piece of
functionality is currently broken and that that partly explains why the
ASPM problems went unnoticed.

> > On the X13s, there is a large number of errors generated when bringing
> > up the link on boot. This is related to the fact that UEFI firmware has
> > already enabled the Wi-Fi PCIe link at Gen2 speed and restarting the
> > link at Gen3 generates a massive amount of errors until the Wi-Fi
> > firmware is restarted.
> >
> > A recent commit enabling ASPM on certain Qualcomm platforms introduced
> > further errors when using the Wi-Fi on the X13s as well as when
> > accessing the NVMe on the CRD. The exact reason for this has not yet
> > been identified, but disabling ASPM L0s makes the errors go away. This
> > could suggest that either the current ASPM implementation is incomplete
> > or that L0s is not supported with these devices.
>
> What are those "further errors" you are seeing with ASPM enabled? Are those
> errors appear with GIC ITS or with internal MSI controller as well?

Further errors as in further correctable errors that are not related to
the errors seen when resetting the X13s Wi-Fi link at boot.

These show up, for example, when accessing the NVMe on the CRD or when
using the Wi-Fi on the X13s. These errors go away when L0s is disabled.

And yes, you see them with both the external and internal MSI controller
(in the latter case, by looking at the error flags mentioned above).

> > Note that the X13s and CRD use the same Wi-Fi controller, but the errors
> > are only generated on the X13s. The NVMe controller on my X13s does not
> > support L0s so there are no issues there, unlike on the CRD which uses a
> > different controller. The modem on the CRD does not generate any errors,
> > but both the NVMe and modem keeps bouncing in and out of L0s/L1 also
> > when not used, which could indicate that there are bigger problems with
> > the ASPM implementation. I don't have a modem on my X13s so I have not
> > been able to test whether L0s causes an trouble there.
> >
> > Enabling AER error reporting on sc8280xp could similarly also reveal
> > existing problems with the related sa8295p and sa8540p platforms as they
> > share the base dtsi.
> >
> > The last four patches, marked as RFC, adds support for disabling ASPM
> > L0s in the devicetree and disables it selectively for the X13s Wi-Fi
> > and CRD NVMe. If it turns out that the Qualcomm PCIe implementation is
> > incomplete, we may need to disable ASPM (L0s) completely in the driver
> > instead.
>
> If the device is not supporting L0s, then it as to be disabled in the device,
> not in the PCIe controller, no?

Well, we don't know yet where the problem lies, just that enabling L0s
results in a large number of correctable errors.

Until yesterday I had not seen any such errors for the Wi-Fi on the CRD,
which uses essentially the same ath11k controller, so there was no clear
indication that this was necessarily a problem with the devices either.

> > Note that disabling ASPM L0s for the X13s Wi-Fi does not seem to have a
> > significant impact on the power consumption
> >
> > The DT bindings and PCI patch are expected to go through the PCI tree,
> > while Bjorn A takes the devicetree updates through the Qualcomm tree.
>
> Since I took a stab at enabling the GIC ITS previously, I noticed that the NVMe
> performance got a slight dip. And that was one of the reasons (apart from AER
> errors) that I never submitted the patch.
>
> Could you share the NVMe benchmark (fio) with this series?

Did you have any particular benchmark in mind?

I have run multiple fio benchmarks and while the results vary with the
parameters, the impact of switching to ITS (so that not all PCIe
interrupts are processed on CPU0) is generally favourable.

A raw sequential read shows no change in throughput on either the X13s
or the CRD even if for some reason this test performs really badly on
the X13s (i.e. regardless of which MSI controller is used):

crd-rseq-read: IOPS=11.1k, BW=2764MiB/s (2898MB/s)(81.0GiB/30003msec)
X13s-rseq-read: IOPS=508, BW=127MiB/s (134MB/s)(3841MiB/30169msec)

Another benchmark I've used against a mounted ext4 partition shows a 2x
improvement in throughput with ITS for sequential and random reads and
writes on the X13s:

seq-read: IOPS=88.4k, BW=345MiB/s (362MB/s)(10.0GiB/29657msec)
rand-read: IOPS=21.2k, BW=82.8MiB/s (86.8MB/s)(4967MiB/60001msec)
seq-write: IOPS=162k, BW=632MiB/s (662MB/s)(10.0GiB/16213msec)
rand-write: IOPS=142k, BW=555MiB/s (582MB/s)(10.0GiB/18439msec)

while the results are essentially unchanged with a larger block size and
queue depth (32/2m instead of 4/4k):

seq-read: IOPS=1095, BW=2191MiB/s (2298MB/s)(10.0GiB/4673msec)
rand-read: IOPS=1020, BW=2041MiB/s (2140MB/s)(10.0GiB/5017msec)
seq-write: IOPS=918, BW=1837MiB/s (1926MB/s)(10.0GiB/5574msec)
rand-write: IOPS=826, BW=1653MiB/s (1734MB/s)(10.0GiB/6194msec)

> > Johan Hovold (10):
> > dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Allow 'required-opps'
> > dt-bindings: PCI: qcom: Do not require 'msi-map-mask'
> > arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: add missing PCIe minimum OPP
> > arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp-crd: limit pcie4 link speed
> > arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp-x13s: limit pcie4 link speed
> > arm64: dts: qcom: sc8280xp: enable GICv3 ITS for PCIe
>
> Is this patch based on the version I shared with you long back? If so, I'd
> expect to have some credit. If you came up with your own version, then ignore
> this comment.

No, this patch has beeen created and evaluated from scratch based on the
downstream direwolf dts, which has these five 'msi-map' properties.

I debated whether I should base it on your version instead, but in the
end it would have a new commit message and only these properties from
the downstream dtsi would remain (you also removed existing properties
IIRC). So while it's certainly inspired by your work, this has been done
from scratch, including the testing.

If you prefer I can make this clear in the commit message, but adding a
Co-developed-by didn't seem quite right either as I did this work
without your involvement. But perhaps that would be better?

Johan