Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] soc: qcom: icc-bwmon: Add bandwidth monitoring driver

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Jul 04 2022 - 11:22:35 EST


On 04/07/2022 17:20, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 7/4/22 05:17, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>> index e718b8735444..2c8091535bf7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/Kconfig
>> @@ -228,4 +228,19 @@ config QCOM_APR
>> application processor and QDSP6. APR is
>> used by audio driver to configure QDSP6
>> ASM, ADM and AFE modules.
>> +
>> +config QCOM_ICC_BWMON
>> + tristate "QCOM Interconnect Bandwidth Monitor driver"
>> + depends on ARCH_QCOM || COMPILE_TEST
>> + select PM_OPP
>> + help
>> + Sets up driver monitoring bandwidth on various interconnects and
>
> Sets up driver bandwidth monitoring
>
> would be better, I think.

It's a driver which monitors bandwidth, so your version sounds a bit
like monitoring of driver's bandwidth.

Maybe should be:
Sets up driver which monitors bandwidth...
?
>
>> + based on that voting for interconnect bandwidth, adjusting their
>> + speed to current demand.
>> + Current implementation brings support for BWMON v4, used for example
>> + on SDM845 to measure bandwidth between CPU (gladiator_noc) and Last
>> + Level Cache (memnoc). Usage of this BWMON allows to remove some of
>> + the fixed bandwidth votes from cpufreq (CPU nodes) thus achieve high
>> + memory throughput even with lower CPU frequencies.
>


Best regards,
Krzysztof