linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm/msm/adreno: Allow specifying default speedbin value

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Message-ID: <d8a2ef87-f29e-4bdb-a9b8-591b8bd5d2b2@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:12:46 +0200
From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
 Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>, Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
 Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@...ainline.org>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
 Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] drm/msm/adreno: Allow specifying default speedbin
 value



On 4/6/24 04:56, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 10:41:31AM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> From: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>
>>
>> Usually, speedbin 0 is the "super SKU", a.k.a the one which can clock
>> the highest. Falling back to it when things go wrong is largely
>> suboptimal, as more often than not, the top frequencies are not
>> supposed to work on other bins.
> 
> Isn't it better to just return an error here instead of trying to guess
> which speedbin to use?

Not sure. I'd rather better compatibility for e.g. booting up a new
laptop with just dt.

> 
> If that's not the case, I think the commit should be expanded with
> actually setting default_speedbin for the existing GPUs.

I think that should be addressed, although separately.

Konrad