[PATCH 16/27] drm/amd/display: increase Z9 latency to workaround underflow in Z9

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Mon Oct 18 22:57:18 UTC 2021


Dear Nicholas, dear Eric, dear Augustin,


Am 18.10.21 um 19:14 schrieb Kazlauskas, Nicholas:
> On 2021-10-15 7:53 p.m., Mike Lothian wrote:
>> This patch seems to change z8 - not that I know what z8 or z9 are
> 
> It's a little misleading but the patch and terminology is correct.
> 
> Z9 is the usecase for these watermarks even if the calculation is shared 
> with Z8/Z9.

It’d be great to have that in the commit message.


Kind regards,

Paul

>> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 19:44, Agustin Gutierrez wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Eric Yang <Eric.Yang2 at amd.com>
>>>
>>> [Why]
>>> Z9 latency is higher than when we originally tuned the watermark
>>> parameters, causing underflow. Increasing the value until the latency
>>> issues is resolved.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Kazlauskas <Nicholas.Kazlauskas at amd.com>
>>> Acked-by: Agustin Gutierrez Sanchez <agustin.gutierrez at amd.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Yang <Eric.Yang2 at amd.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.c | 4 ++--
>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.c 
>>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.c
>>> index c9d3d691f4c6..12ebd9f8912f 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dcn31/dcn31_resource.c
>>> @@ -222,8 +222,8 @@ struct _vcs_dpi_soc_bounding_box_st dcn3_1_soc = {
>>>          .num_states = 5,
>>>          .sr_exit_time_us = 9.0,
>>>          .sr_enter_plus_exit_time_us = 11.0,
>>> -       .sr_exit_z8_time_us = 402.0,
>>> -       .sr_enter_plus_exit_z8_time_us = 520.0,
>>> +       .sr_exit_z8_time_us = 442.0,
>>> +       .sr_enter_plus_exit_z8_time_us = 560.0,
>>>          .writeback_latency_us = 12.0,
>>>          .dram_channel_width_bytes = 4,
>>>          .round_trip_ping_latency_dcfclk_cycles = 106,
>>> -- 
>>> 2.25.1
>>>
> 


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