Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: rk3328: add gpu opp table

[Robin Murphy]

On 2021-10-17 16:29, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> On Sat 2021-10-16 @ 10:45:04 PM, Johan Jonker wrote:
> > On 10/16/21 5:45 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > > Add an operating-points table and cooling entry to the GPU on the
> > > RK3328 SoC to improve its performance. According to its datasheet[1]
> > > the maximum frequency of the Mali-450 MP2 GPU found on the RK3328 SoC
> > > is 500MHz.
> > >
> > > On my rock64 device, under x11, glmark2-es2 performance increased from
> > > around 60 to just over 100. Same device running glmark2-es2 under
> > > wayland/weston improved from just over 100 to just over 200.
> > >
> > > [1] https://rockchip.fr/RK3328%20datasheet%20V1.2.pdf
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > >   1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi
> > > index 8c821acb21ff..5e1dcf71e414 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328.dtsi
> > > @@ -532,7 +532,8 @@ map0 {
> > >   					cooling-device = <&cpu0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
> > >   							 <&cpu1 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
> > >   							 <&cpu2 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
> > > -							 <&cpu3 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
> > > +							 <&cpu3 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
> > > +							 <&gpu THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
> > >   					contribution = <4096>;
> > >   				};
> > >   			};
> > > @@ -617,6 +618,29 @@ gpu: gpu@ff300000 {
> > >   		clocks = <&cru ACLK_GPU>, <&cru ACLK_GPU>;
> > >   		clock-names = "bus", "core";
> > >   		resets = <&cru SRST_GPU_A>;
> > > +		operating-points-v2 = <&gpu_opp_table>;
> > > +		#cooling-cells = <2>;
> > > +	};
> > > +
> >
> > > +	gpu_opp_table: gpu-opp-table {
> >
> > After the conversion to YAML of the Operating Performance Points(OPP)
> > binding the operating-points-v2 property expects the nodename to have
> > the '^opp-table(-[a-z0-9]+)?$' format.
> >
> > make ARCH=arm64 dtbs_check
> > DT_SCHEMA_FILES=Documentation/devicetree/bindings/opp/opp-v2.yaml
>
> Thanks, I wasn't aware.
>
> > > +		compatible = "operating-points-v2";
> > > +
> > > +		opp-200000000 {
> > > +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <200000000>;
> > > +			opp-microvolt = <1100000>;
> > > +		};
> > > +		opp-300000000 {
> > > +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <300000000>;
> > > +			opp-microvolt = <1100000>;
> > > +		};
> > > +		opp-400000000 {
> > > +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <400000000>;
> > > +			opp-microvolt = <1100000>;
> > > +		};
> > > +		opp-500000000 {
> > > +			opp-hz = /bits/ 64 <500000000>;
> > > +			opp-microvolt = <1100000>;
> > > +		};
> > >   	};
> >
> > opp-microvolt has the same value for every node vs. table below?
>
> On page 1 of the schematic for the rock64
> https://files.pine64.org/doc/rock64/ROCK64_Schematic_v3.0_20181105.pdf is a
> table ("Power Timing") showing BUCK1 at 1.1V. I interpreted this to mean that
> VDD_LOG should always be at 1.1V, regardless of frequency.

No, that's just the default voltage that BUCK1 itself starts up at - 
looks like that table is an unfinished attempt to summarise the Power 
Sequence section from the RK805 datasheet.

> > See also previous discussion:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rockchip/3c95c29b-6c07-5945-ac22-d683997e1ca0@xxxxxxx/
> >
> > Is that now fixed/checked?
>
> I wasn't aware of the previous/on-going discussion regarding a gpu opp table
> for this SoC. Perhaps that explains my suspicions? I couldn't help wonder why
> the frequency is always reported as 163840000 even when I have an opp table
> that only has the 500MHz entry?

FWIW the usual culprit for clocks not changing is inadvertently not 
having devfreq and/or the simple_ondemand governor enabled. However, I 
do seem to recall that devfreq doesn't explicitly fix up an out-of-spec 
clock to a known OPP on startup like cpufreq does - I think it only 
actually touches the clocks and regulators when transitioning between 
OPPs, so if it only has one it might possibly end up in a pathological 
state where that effectively never happens; I don't remember exactly. 
Unfortunately all my boards are out of action for various reasons at the 
moment so I can't readily check how I was running mine, but from memory 
I think I ended up with slightly tweaked voltages based on a survey of 
several other BSP kernels, and the 200-300MHz points just disabled to 
avoid undervolting the memory controller once lima voltage scaling was 
working properly.

Cheers,
Robin.

> I'll investigate whether I can prove or disprove the scaling is actually
> occurring?
>
> Best regards,
> 	Trevor