Quoting Sai Prakash Ranjan (2019-09-20 01:04:29) > From: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Add reset hook for sdm845 based platforms to turn off > the wait-for-safe sequence. > > Understanding how wait-for-safe logic affects USB and UFS performance > on MTP845 and DB845 boards: > > Qcom's implementation of arm,mmu-500 adds a WAIT-FOR-SAFE logic > to address under-performance issues in real-time clients, such as > Display, and Camera. > On receiving an invalidation requests, the SMMU forwards SAFE request > to these clients and waits for SAFE ack signal from real-time clients. > The SAFE signal from such clients is used to qualify the start of > invalidation. > This logic is controlled by chicken bits, one for each - MDP (display), > IFE0, and IFE1 (camera), that can be accessed only from secure software > on sdm845. > > This configuration, however, degrades the performance of non-real time > clients, such as USB, and UFS etc. This happens because, with wait-for-safe > logic enabled the hardware tries to throttle non-real time clients while > waiting for SAFE ack signals from real-time clients. > > On mtp845 and db845 devices, with wait-for-safe logic enabled by the > bootloaders we see degraded performance of USB and UFS when kernel > enables the smmu stage-1 translations for these clients. > Turn off this wait-for-safe logic from the kernel gets us back the perf > of USB and UFS devices until we re-visit this when we start seeing perf > issues on display/camera on upstream supported SDM845 platforms. > The bootloaders on these boards implement secure monitor callbacks to > handle a specific command - QCOM_SCM_SVC_SMMU_PROGRAM with which the > logic can be toggled. > > There are other boards such as cheza whose bootloaders don't enable this > logic. Such boards don't implement callbacks to handle the specific SCM > call so disabling this logic for such boards will be a no-op. > > This change is inspired by the downstream change from Patrick Daly > to address performance issues with display and camera by handling > this wait-for-safe within separte io-pagetable ops to do TLB > maintenance. So a big thanks to him for the change and for all the > offline discussions. > > Without this change the UFS reads are pretty slow: > $ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=10 conv=sync > 10+0 records in > 10+0 records out > 10485760 bytes (10.0MB) copied, 22.394903 seconds, 457.2KB/s > real 0m 22.39s > user 0m 0.00s > sys 0m 0.01s > > With this change they are back to rock! > $ time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=300 conv=sync > 300+0 records in > 300+0 records out > 314572800 bytes (300.0MB) copied, 1.030541 seconds, 291.1MB/s > real 0m 1.03s > user 0m 0.00s > sys 0m 0.54s > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Gautam <vivek.gautam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sai Prakash Ranjan <saiprakash.ranjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
