Skip to content
Unverified Commit 4686da83 authored by Boris Brezillon's avatar Boris Brezillon Committed by Maxime Ripard
Browse files

drm/vc4: Add a load tracker to prevent HVS underflow errors



The HVS block is supposed to fill the pixelvalve FIFOs fast enough to
meet the requested framerate. The problem is, the HVS and memory bus
bandwidths are limited, and if we don't take these limitations into
account we might end up with HVS underflow errors.

This patch is trying to model the per-plane HVS and memory bus bandwidth
consumption and take a decision at atomic_check() time whether the
estimated load will fit in the HVS and membus budget.

Note that we take an extra margin on the memory bus consumption to let
the system run smoothly when other blocks are doing heavy use of the
memory bus. Same goes for the HVS limit, except the margin is smaller in
this case, since the HVS is not used by external components.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190220155124.25022-3-paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com
parent 531a1b62
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment