[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Ensure DSC has enough BW and stays within HW limits

[Swati Sharma]

On 06-Mar-23 1:34 PM, Stanislav Lisovskiy wrote:
> We have currently the issue with some BPPs when using DSC
 >> Nitpick: We currently have an issue with some BPPs when using DSC.

> According the HW team the reason is that single VDSC engine instance,
 >> Nitpick: According "to" the ..

> has some BW limitations which have to be accounted, so whenever
> we approach around 90% of the CDCLK, second VDSC engine have to be
> used. Also that always means using 2 slices, however in our current code
> amount of slices is calculated for some reason independently of
> whether we need to enable 2nd VDSC engine or not, thus leading to
> some logical issues, when according to pixel clock needs we need to enable
> 2nd VDSC engine, however as we calculated previously that we can use
> only single slice, we can't do that and fail.
> So we need to fix that, so that amount of VDSC engines enabled should depend
> on amount of slices and amount of slices should also depend on BW requirements.
> Lastly we didn't have BPP limitation for ADLP/MTL/DG2 implemented which says
> that DSC output BPP's can only be chosen within range of 8 to 27(BSpec 49259).
> This all applied together allows to fix existing FIFO underruns, which we
> have in many DSC tests.
> 
> BSpec: 49259
> HSDES: 18027167222

Also, please add closes 
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/8231
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Lisovskiy <stanislav.lisovskiy at intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c
> index aee93b0d810e..e3680ae95b83 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp.c
> @@ -687,6 +687,12 @@ u32 intel_dp_dsc_nearest_valid_bpp(struct drm_i915_private *i915, u32 bpp, u32 p
>   	/* From XE_LPD onwards we support from bpc upto uncompressed bpp-1 BPPs */
>   	if (DISPLAY_VER(i915) >= 13) {
>   		bits_per_pixel = min(bits_per_pixel, pipe_bpp - 1);
> +
> +		/* According to BSpec, 27 is the max DSC output bpp */
> +		bits_per_pixel = min(bits_per_pixel, (u32)27);
> +
> +		/* According to BSpec, 8 is the min DSC output bpp */
> +		bits_per_pixel = max(bits_per_pixel, (u32)8);
>   	} else {
>   		/* Find the nearest match in the array of known BPPs from VESA */
>   		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(valid_dsc_bpp) - 1; i++) {
> @@ -771,6 +777,9 @@ u8 intel_dp_dsc_get_slice_count(struct intel_dp *intel_dp,
>   		min_slice_count = DIV_ROUND_UP(mode_clock,
>   					       DP_DSC_MAX_ENC_THROUGHPUT_1);
>   
> +	if (mode_clock >= ((i915->display.cdclk.max_cdclk_freq * 85) / 100))
> +		min_slice_count = max(min_slice_count, (u8)2);
> +
>   	max_slice_width = drm_dp_dsc_sink_max_slice_width(intel_dp->dsc_dpcd);
>   	if (max_slice_width < DP_DSC_MIN_SLICE_WIDTH_VALUE) {
>   		drm_dbg_kms(&i915->drm,
> @@ -1597,16 +1606,8 @@ int intel_dp_dsc_compute_config(struct intel_dp *intel_dp,
>   	 * is greater than the maximum Cdclock and if slice count is even
>   	 * then we need to use 2 VDSC instances.
>   	 */
> -	if (adjusted_mode->crtc_clock > dev_priv->display.cdclk.max_cdclk_freq ||
> -	    pipe_config->bigjoiner_pipes) {
> -		if (pipe_config->dsc.slice_count > 1) {
> -			pipe_config->dsc.dsc_split = true;
> -		} else {
> -			drm_dbg_kms(&dev_priv->drm,
> -				    "Cannot split stream to use 2 VDSC instances\n");
> -			return -EINVAL;
> -		}
> -	}
> +	if (pipe_config->bigjoiner_pipes || pipe_config->dsc.slice_count > 1)
> +		pipe_config->dsc.dsc_split = true;
>   
>   	ret = intel_dp_dsc_compute_params(&dig_port->base, pipe_config);
>   	if (ret < 0) {

-- 
~Swati Sharma