On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 23:57:02 +0200
Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Boris,
> >
> > Thank you for the patch.
> >
> > On Thursday 02 Jun 2016 16:31:28 Boris Brezillon wrote:
> >> Adapt drm_pick_crtcs() and update_connector_routing() to fallback to
> >> drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder() if funcs->best_encoder() is NULL so
> >> that DRM drivers can leave this hook unassigned if they know they want
> >> to use drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder().
> >
> > Could you please update include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h to document
> > this new behaviour ?
>
> Thanks for reminding me. Please update hooks for both
> atomic_best_encoder and best_encoder. Also mention that it's only
> optional for atomic drivers. There's lots of examples in that file for
> the wording usually used.
Hm, I haven't changed anything for the ->atomic_best_encoder() hook, or
am I missing something?
>
> > The only drawback I see in this patch is the additional object lookup
> > performed by drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder() at runtime. I wonder if we could
> > somehow cache the information, as the assignment can't change when there's a
> > 1:1 correspondence between encoders and connectors.
>
> drm_encoder_find is an idr lookup. That should be plenty fast,
> especially for modeset code. Usually what's too expensive even for
> modeset code is linear list walks. But Chris just submitted patches to
> convert most of them into simple lookups.
> -Daniel
>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 4 +++-
> >> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c index f6a3350..849d029 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> >> @@ -300,8 +300,10 @@ update_connector_routing(struct drm_atomic_state
> >> *state, if (funcs->atomic_best_encoder)
> >> new_encoder = funcs->atomic_best_encoder(connector,
> >> connector_state);
> >> - else
> >> + else if (funcs->best_encoder)
> >> new_encoder = funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> >> + else
> >> + new_encoder = drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder(connector);
> >>
> >> if (!new_encoder) {
> >> DRM_DEBUG_ATOMIC("No suitable encoder found for [CONNECTOR:%d:%s]\n",
> >> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> >> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c index 7c2eb75..d44389a 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> >> @@ -2000,7 +2000,18 @@ static int drm_pick_crtcs(struct drm_fb_helper
> >> *fb_helper, my_score++;
> >>
> >> connector_funcs = connector->helper_private;
> >> - encoder = connector_funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> >> +
> >> + /*
> >> + * If the DRM device implements atomic hooks and ->best_encoder() is
> >> + * NULL we fallback to the default drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder()
> >> + * helper.
> >> + */
> >> + if (fb_helper->dev->mode_config.funcs->atomic_commit &&
> >> + !connector_funcs->best_encoder)
> >> + encoder = drm_atomic_helper_best_encoder(connector);
> >> + else
> >> + encoder = connector_funcs->best_encoder(connector);
> >> +
> >> if (!encoder)
> >> goto out;
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Laurent Pinchart
> >
>
>
>
--
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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