Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/3] drm/dp/mst: Calculate total link bandwidth instead of hardcoding it

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On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 22:58 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:03:47PM -0800, Dhinakaran Pandiyan wrote:
> > The total or the nominal link bandwidth, which we save in terms of PBN, is
> > a factor of link rate and lane count. But, currently we hardcode it to
> > 2560 PBN. This results in incorrect computation of total slots.
> > 
> > E.g, 2 lane HBR2 configuration and 4k@60Hz, 24bpp mode
> >   nominal link bw = 1080 MBps = 1280PBN = 64 slots
> >   required bw 533.25 MHz*3 = 1599.75 MBps or 1896 PBN
> >      with +0.6% margin = 1907.376 PBN = 96 slots
> >   This is greater than the max. possible value of 64 slots. But, we
> >   incorrectly compute available slots as 2560 PBN = 128 slots and don't
> >   return error.
> > 
> > So, let's fix this by calculating the total link bandwidth as
> > link bw (PBN) = BW per time slot(PBN) * max. time slots , where max. time
> > slots is 64
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 5 ++---
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
> > index 04e4571..26dfd99 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c
> > @@ -2038,9 +2038,8 @@ int drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr_set_mst(struct drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr *mgr, bool ms
> >  			ret = -EINVAL;
> >  			goto out_unlock;
> >  		}
> > -
> > -		mgr->total_pbn = 2560;
> > -		mgr->total_slots = DIV_ROUND_UP(mgr->total_pbn, mgr->pbn_div);
> > +		mgr->total_pbn = 64 * mgr->pbn_div;
> 
> Do we actually have a use in mind for total_pbn? It seems unused now.

Not really, I will remove it and submit this patch separately.

> 
> > +		mgr->total_slots = 64;
> 
> Same for total_slots.
> 
> >  		mgr->avail_slots = mgr->total_slots;
> 
> So avail_slots is all that's used. And shouldn't it actually start
> out at 63 instead of 64 on account of the MTP header always taking
> up one slot?
> 

Yeah, I had a check for < avail_slots in the patch that followed.


-DK
> >  
> >  		/* add initial branch device at LCT 1 */
> > -- 
> > 2.7.4
> 

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