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Message-ID: <3edbfc14-eb16-7bd8-89d5-20f46ad7569b@amd.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:48:59 -0800
From: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@....com>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>, <ogabbay@...nel.org>,
	<quic_jhugo@...cinc.com>, <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	<maciej.falkowski@...ux.intel.com>
CC: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <max.zhen@....com>, <sonal.santan@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1] accel/amdxdna: Enable temporal sharing only mode


On 12/17/25 10:20, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On 12/17/25 11:17 AM, Lizhi Hou wrote:
>> Newer firmware versions prefer temporal sharing only mode. In this mode,
>> the driver no longer needs to manage AIE array column allocation. 
>> Instead,
>> a new field, num_unused_col, is added to the hardware context creation
>> request to specify how many columns will not be used by this hardware
>> context.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@....com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c      | 11 ++++++++++-
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c  |  1 +
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_msg_priv.h |  3 ++-
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.h      |  1 +
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_ctx.h   |  1 +
>>   drivers/accel/amdxdna/npu4_regs.c     |  1 +
>>   6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
>> index 42d876a427c5..2ed087803628 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_ctx.c
>> @@ -468,6 +468,12 @@ static int aie2_alloc_resource(struct 
>> amdxdna_hwctx *hwctx)
>>       struct alloc_requests *xrs_req;
>>       int ret;
>>   +    if (AIE2_FEATURE_ON(xdna->dev_handle, AIE2_TEMPORAL_ONLY)) {
>> +        hwctx->num_unused_col = xdna->dev_handle->total_col - 
>> hwctx->num_col;
>> +        hwctx->num_col = xdna->dev_handle->total_col;
>> +        return aie2_create_context(xdna->dev_handle, hwctx);
>> +    }
>> +
>>       xrs_req = kzalloc(sizeof(*xrs_req), GFP_KERNEL);
>>       if (!xrs_req)
>>           return -ENOMEM;
>> @@ -499,7 +505,10 @@ static void aie2_release_resource(struct 
>> amdxdna_hwctx *hwctx)
>>       struct amdxdna_dev *xdna = hwctx->client->xdna;
>>       int ret;
>>   -    ret = xrs_release_resource(xdna->xrs_hdl, (uintptr_t)hwctx);
>> +    if (AIE2_FEATURE_ON(xdna->dev_handle, AIE2_TEMPORAL_ONLY))
>> +        ret = aie2_destroy_context(xdna->dev_handle, hwctx);
>> +    else
>> +        ret = xrs_release_resource(xdna->xrs_hdl, (uintptr_t)hwctx);
>>       if (ret)
>>           XDNA_ERR(xdna, "Release AIE resource failed, ret %d", ret);
>
> To avoid confusion, I think you want to pull the error string into the 
> if/else branch and have a unique error string for context destroy 
> failure or release failure.
Sure.
>
>>   }
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
>> index 9ec973028221..e77a353cadc5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_message.c
>> @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ int aie2_create_context(struct amdxdna_dev_hdl 
>> *ndev, struct amdxdna_hwctx *hwct
>>       req.aie_type = 1;
>>       req.start_col = hwctx->start_col;
>>       req.num_col = hwctx->num_col;
>> +    req.num_unused_col = hwctx->num_unused_col;
>>       req.num_cq_pairs_requested = 1;
>>       req.pasid = hwctx->client->pasid;
>>       req.context_priority = 2;
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_msg_priv.h 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_msg_priv.h
>> index 1c957a6298d3..cc912b7899ce 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_msg_priv.h
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_msg_priv.h
>> @@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ struct create_ctx_req {
>>       __u32    aie_type;
>>       __u8    start_col;
>>       __u8    num_col;
>> -    __u16    reserved;
>> +    __u8    num_unused_col;
>> +    __u8    reserved;
>>       __u8    num_cq_pairs_requested;
>>       __u8    reserved1;
>>       __u16    pasid;
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.h 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.h
>> index c6b5cf4ae5c4..a929fa98a121 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.h
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/aie2_pci.h
>> @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ struct aie2_hw_ops {
>>   enum aie2_fw_feature {
>>       AIE2_NPU_COMMAND,
>>       AIE2_PREEMPT,
>> +    AIE2_TEMPORAL_ONLY,
>>       AIE2_FEATURE_MAX
>>   };
>>   diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_ctx.h 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_ctx.h
>> index b6151244d64f..b29449a92f60 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_ctx.h
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/amdxdna_ctx.h
>> @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct amdxdna_hwctx {
>>       u32                *col_list;
>>       u32                start_col;
>>       u32                num_col;
>> +    u32                num_unused_col;
>>   #define HWCTX_STAT_INIT  0
>>   #define HWCTX_STAT_READY 1
>>   #define HWCTX_STAT_STOP  2
>> diff --git a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/npu4_regs.c 
>> b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/npu4_regs.c
>> index 4ca21db70478..a62234fd266d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/accel/amdxdna/npu4_regs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/accel/amdxdna/npu4_regs.c
>> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ const struct dpm_clk_freq npu4_dpm_clk_table[] = {
>>   const struct aie2_fw_feature_tbl npu4_fw_feature_table[] = {
>>       { .feature = AIE2_NPU_COMMAND, .min_minor = 15 },
>>       { .feature = AIE2_PREEMPT, .min_minor = 12 },
>> +    { .feature = AIE2_TEMPORAL_ONLY, .min_minor = 12 },
>
> Similar to my comment on other thread, is this really NPU2,4,5,6 
> feature?  Or it's 4+?

NPU2 is obsoleted. I will remove NPU2 later.


Thanks,

Lizhi

>
>>       { 0 }
>>   };
>

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