linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 4/5] drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver

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Message-ID: <74ae6ba7-a2e4-3b89-940-9a29f7cea34f@os.amperecomputing.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2023 16:48:01 -0800 (PST)
From:   Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@...amperecomputing.com>
To:     Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
cc:     Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@...amperecomputing.com>,
        kaishen@...ux.alibaba.com, helgaas@...nel.org,
        yangyicong@...wei.com, will@...nel.org,
        Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com, baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com,
        robin.murphy@....com, chengyou@...ux.alibaba.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, rdunlap@...radead.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, zhuo.song@...ux.alibaba.com,
        renyu.zj@...ux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 4/5] drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver


On Wed, 15 Nov 2023, Shuai Xue wrote:
> On 2023/11/15 08:07, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
>>
>> Hi Shuai,
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Nov 2023, Shuai Xue wrote:
>>> This commit adds the PCIe Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) driver support
>>> for T-Head Yitian SoC chip. Yitian is based on the Synopsys PCI Express
>>> Core controller IP which provides statistics feature. The PMU is a PCIe
>>> configuration space register block provided by each PCIe Root Port in a
>>> Vendor-Specific Extended Capability named RAS D.E.S (Debug, Error
>>> injection, and Statistics).
>>>
>>> To facilitate collection of statistics the controller provides the
>>> following two features for each Root Port:
>>>
>>> - one 64-bit counter for Time Based Analysis (RX/TX data throughput and
>>>  time spent in each low-power LTSSM state) and
>>> - one 32-bit counter for Event Counting (error and non-error events for
>>>  a specified lane)
>>>
>>> Note: There is no interrupt for counter overflow.
>>>
>>> This driver adds PMU devices for each PCIe Root Port. And the PMU device is
>>> named based the BDF of Root Port. For example,
>>>
>>>    30:03.0 PCI bridge: Device 1ded:8000 (rev 01)
>>>
>>> the PMU device name for this Root Port is dwc_rootport_3018.
>>>
>>> Example usage of counting PCIe RX TLP data payload (Units of bytes)::
>>>
>>>    $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_3018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/
>>>
>>> average RX bandwidth can be calculated like this:
>>>
>>>    PCIe TX Bandwidth = Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload / Measure_Time_Window
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>
>>
>> Thanks for the driver! I finally found some time to test your driver on AmpereOne and it seemed to work fine.
>
> Glad to hear that. Could you please explicitly give me you tested-by tag? I could add it in next version.

Sure, I'll reply to the cover letter mail.

>> I had to do a couple of changes though such as adding Ampere vendor ID
and support multiple PCIe domains. Given your driver is already in v10 and you have got quite a few reviewed and acked bys, I wonder if it's better to add my changes to your patches or me to create new patches on top of yours? I'm fine with either. Any thoughts?
>
> I prefer new separate patches, so that we can review them in a new loop.

Sounds good to me.

Cheers, Ilkka

>
>>
>> Cheers, Ilkka
>
> Best Regard,
> Shuai
>