Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915/hwmon: Enable PL1 limit when writing limit value to HW

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On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:47:23PM -0800, Dixit, Ashutosh wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:51:37 -0800, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> >
> 
> Hi Rodrigo,
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 01:00:48PM -0800, Ashutosh Dixit wrote:
> > > Previous documentation suggested that the PL1 power limit is always enabled
> > > in HW. However we now find this not to be the case on some platforms (such
> > > as ATSM). Therefore enable the PL1 power limit (by setting the enable bit)
> > > when writing the PL1 limit value to HW.
> > >
> > > Bspec: 51864
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_hwmon.c | 5 +++--
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_hwmon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_hwmon.c
> > > index 85195d61f89c7..7c20a6f47b92e 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_hwmon.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_hwmon.c
> > > @@ -385,10 +385,11 @@ hwm_power_max_write(struct hwm_drvdata *ddat, long val)
> > >
> > >	/* Computation in 64-bits to avoid overflow. Round to nearest. */
> > >	nval = DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST_ULL((u64)val << hwmon->scl_shift_power, SF_POWER);
> > > +	nval = PKG_PWR_LIM_1_EN | REG_FIELD_PREP(PKG_PWR_LIM_1, nval);
> > >
> > >	hwm_locked_with_pm_intel_uncore_rmw(ddat, hwmon->rg.pkg_rapl_limit,
> > > -					    PKG_PWR_LIM_1,
> > > -					    REG_FIELD_PREP(PKG_PWR_LIM_1, nval));
> > > +					    PKG_PWR_LIM_1_EN | PKG_PWR_LIM_1,
> > > +					    nval);
> >
> > This patch looks right to me. But could you please open up on what exactly
> > failed on that reverted patch? Why do we need to set the bits together?
> 
> I had explained a bit here:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8062#note_1761070
> 
> But will repeat. On ATSM, at power-up, PCODE sets the PL1 power limit to 0
> but disables the PL1 power limit. The earlier patch had enabled the the PL1
> power limit during module load itself but had left the PL1 power limit set
> to 0 (since there is no easy way to find out what it should be set to, on
> ATSM PCODE sets even the max power (which could have been used to set the
> PL1 limit) to 0). You can see that patch here:
> 
> https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/521321/?series=113578&rev=4
> 
> Now the PL1 power limit being 0 (and enabled) implies that HW will work
> with minimum power and therefore the lowest effective frequency. This means
> all workloads will run slower and this was resulting in various IGT tests
> timing out and GuC FW load (on resets) timing out on ATSM and that is why
> we had to revert that patch.
> 
> In this patch I have changed the strategy and instead of enabling the PL1
> power limit on module load we now enable it only when the limit is set by
> userspace. So at least the default CI will not be affected in this case. We
> can see that there no regressions on ATSM this time here:
> 
> https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/Patchwork_113984v1/bat-all.html?
> 

this makes total sense. Thank you!

Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx>


> Thanks.
> --
> Ashutosh
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > >	return 0;
> > >  }
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.38.0
> > >



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