linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 4/5] drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver

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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:04:48 +0800
From:   Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@...amperecomputing.com>
Cc:     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 v11 4/5] drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver



On 2023/11/30 09:43, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 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>
>> Tested-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@...amperecomputing.com>
> 
> Looks good to me and seems to work fine. Thus,
> 
>   Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@...amperecomputing.com>
> 
> 
> You can keep my "Tested-by: ..." in the other patches.
> 
> Cheers, Ilkka

Thank you very much :)

Cheers
Shuai