Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] drm/msm/dpu: add dsc helper functions

From: Abhinav Kumar
Date: Sun Feb 26 2023 - 18:49:39 EST



On 2/26/2023 5:09 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
On 26/02/2023 02:47, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
Hi Dmitry

On 2/25/2023 7:23 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
On 25/02/2023 02:36, Abhinav Kumar wrote:


On 2/24/2023 3:53 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2023 at 00:26, Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/24/2023 1:36 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
24 февраля 2023 г. 23:23:03 GMT+02:00, Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxx> пишет:
On 2/24/2023 1:13 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
On 24/02/2023 21:40, Kuogee Hsieh wrote:
Add DSC helper functions based on DSC configuration profiles to produce
DSC related runtime parameters through both table look up and runtime
calculation to support DSC on DPU.

There are 6 different DSC configuration profiles are supported currently.
DSC configuration profiles are differiented by 5 keys, DSC version (V1.1),
chroma (444/422/420), colorspace (RGB/YUV), bpc(8/10),
bpp (6/7/7.5/8/9/10/12/15) and SCR (0/1).

Only DSC version V1.1 added and V1.2 will be added later.

These helpers should go to drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dsc_helper.c
Also please check that they can be used for i915 or for amdgpu (ideally for both of them).


No, it cannot. So each DSC encoder parameter is calculated based on the HW core which is being used.

They all get packed to the same DSC structure which is the struct drm_dsc_config but the way the parameters are computed is specific to the HW.

This DPU file helper still uses the drm_dsc_helper's drm_dsc_compute_rc_parameters() like all other vendors do but the parameters themselves are very HW specific and belong to each vendor's dir.

This is not unique to MSM.

Lets take a few other examples:

AMD: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/msm/-/blob/msm-next/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/dml/dsc/rc_calc_fpu.c#L165

i915: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/msm/-/blob/msm-next/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vdsc.c#L379

I checked several values here. Intel driver defines more bpc/bpp combinations, but the ones which are defined in intel_vdsc and in this patch seem to match. If there are major differences there, please point me to the exact case.

I remember that AMD driver might have different values.


Some values in the rc_params table do match. But the rc_buf_thresh[] doesnt.

Because later they do:

vdsc_cfg->rc_buf_thresh[i] = rc_buf_thresh[i] >> 6;


https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/msm/-/blob/msm-next/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_vdsc.c#L40

Vs

+static u16 dpu_dsc_rc_buf_thresh[DSC_NUM_BUF_RANGES - 1] = {
+               0x0e, 0x1c, 0x2a, 0x38, 0x46, 0x54,
+               0x62, 0x69, 0x70, 0x77, 0x79, 0x7b, 0x7d, 0x7e
+};

I'd prefer to have 896, 1792, etc. here, as those values come from the
standard. As it's done in the Intel driver.


Got it, thanks

I dont know the AMD calculation very well to say that moving this to the
helper is going to help.

Those calculations correspond (more or less) at the first glance to
what intel does for their newer generations. I think that's not our
problem for now.


Well, we have to figure out if each value matches and if each of them come from the spec for us and i915 and from which section. So it is unfortunately our problem.

Otherwise it will have to be handled by Marijn, me or anybody else wanting to hack up the DSC code. Or by anybody adding DSC support to the next platform and having to figure out the difference between i915, msm and their platform.


Yes, I wonder why the same doubt didn't arise when the other vendors added their support both from other maintainers and others.

Which makes me think that like I wrote in my previous response, these are "recommended" values in the spec but its not mandatory.

I think, it is because there were no other drivers to compare. In other words, for a first driver it is pretty logical to have everything handled on its own. As soon as we start getting other implementations of a feature, it becomes logical to think if the code can be generalized. This is what we see we with the HDCP series or with the code being moved to DP helpers.


We were not the second, MSM was/is the third to add support for DSC afer i915 and AMD. Thats what made me think why whoever was the second didnt end up generalizing. Was it just missed out or was it intentionally left in the vendor driver.


Moving this to the drm_dsc_helper is generalizing the tables and not giving room for the vendors to customize even if they want to (which the spec does allow).

That depends on the API you select. For example, in intel_dsc_compute_params() I see customization being applied to rc_buf_thresh in 6bpp case. I'd leave that to the i915 driver.


Thanks for going through the i915 to figure out that the 6bpp is handled in a customized way. So what you are saying is let the helper first fill up the recommended values of the spec, whatever is changed from that let the vendor driver override that.

Thats where the case-by-case handling comes.

Why not we do this way? Like you mentioned lets move these tables to the drm_dsc_helper and let MSM driver first use those.

Then in a separate patchset if i915 and AMD would like to move to that, let them handle it for their respective drivers instead of MSM going through whats customized for each calculation and doing it.

I am hesitant to take up that effort.

If the recommended values work for the vendor, they can clean it up and move to the drm_dsc_helper themselves and preserving their customizations rather than one vendor doing it for all of them.

In case the driver needs to perform customization of the params, nothing stops it drop applying after filling all the RC params in the drm_dsc_config struct via the generic helper.


So if this has any merit and if you or Marijn would like to take it up, go for it. We would do the same thing as either of you would have to in terms of figuring out the difference between msm and the i915 code.

This is not a generic API we are trying to put in a helper, these are hard-coded tables so there is a difference between looking at these Vs looking at some common code which can move to the core.



Also, i think its too risky to change other drivers to use whatever math
we put in the drm_dsc_helper to compute thr RC params because their code
might be computing and using this tables differently.

Its too much ownership for MSM developers to move this to drm_dsc_helper
and own that as it might cause breakage of basic DSC even if some values
are repeated.

It's time to stop thinking about ownership and start thinking about
shared code. We already have two instances of DSC tables. I don't
think having a third instance, which is a subset of an existing
dataset, would be beneficial to anybody.
AMD has complicated code which supports half-bit bpp and calculates
some of the parameters. But sharing data with the i915 driver is
straightforward.


Sorry, but I would like to get an ack from i915 folks if this is going
to be useful to them if we move this to helper because we have to look at every table. Not just one.

Added i915 maintainers to the CC list for them to be able to answer.


Thanks, lets wait to hear from them about where finally these tables should go but thats can be taken up as a separate effort too.


Also, this is just 1.1, we will add more tables for 1.2. So we will have to end up changing both 1.1 and 1.2 tables as they are different for QC.

I haven't heard back from Kuogee about the possible causes of using rc/qp values from 1.2 even for 1.1 panels. Maybe you can comment on that? In other words, can we always stick to the values from 1.2 standard? What will be the drawback?

Otherwise, we'd have to have two different sets of values, like you do in your vendor driver.


I have responded to this in the other email.

All this being said, even if the rc tables move the drm_dsc_helper either now or later on, we will still need MSM specific calculations for many of the other encoder parameters (which are again either hard-coded or calculated). Please refer to the sde_dsc_populate_dsc_config() downstream. And yes, you will not find those in the DP spec directly.

So we will still need a dsc helper for MSM calculations to be common for DSI / DP irrespective of where the tables go.

So, lets finalize that first.

I went on and trimmed sde_dsc_populate_dsc_config() to remove duplication with the drm_dsc_compute_rc_parameters() (which we already use for the MSM DSI DSC).

Not much is left:

dsc->first_line_bpg_offset set via the switch

dsc->line_buf_depth = bpc + 1;
dsc->mux_word_size = bpc > 10 ? DSC_MUX_WORD_SIZE_12_BPC:
        DSC_MUX_WORD_SIZE_8_10_BPC;

if ((dsc->dsc_version_minor == 0x2) && (dsc->native_420))
    dsc->nsl_bpg_offset = (2048 *
             (DIV_ROUND_UP(dsc->second_line_bpg_offset,
                                (dsc->slice_height - 1))));

dsc->initial_scale_value = 8 * dsc->rc_model_size /
                        (dsc->rc_model_size - dsc->initial_offset);


mux_word_size comes from the standard (must)
initial_scale_value calculation is recommended, but not required
nsl_bpg_offset follows the standard (must), also see below (*).

first_line_bpg_offset calculation differs between three drivers. The standard also provides a recommended formulas. I think we can leave it as is for now.

I think, that mux_word_size and nsl_bpg_offset calculation should be moved to drm_dsc_compute_rc_parameters(), while leaving initial_scale_value in place (in the driver code).

* I think nsl_bpg_offset is slightly incorrectly calculated. Standard demands that it is set to 'second_line_bpg_offset / (slice_height - 1), rounded up to 16 fraction bits', while SDE driver code sets it to the value rounded up to the next integer (having 16 fraction bits representation).

In my opinion correct calculation should be:
dsc->nsl_bpg_offset = DIV_ROUND_UP(2048 * dsc->second_line_bpg_offset,
                                (dsc->slice_height - 1));

Could you please check, which one is correct according to the standard?



Sure, i will check about nsl_bpg_offset. But sorry if I was not more clear about this but sde_dsc_populate_dsc_config() is only one example which from your analysis can be moved to the drm_dsc_helper() but not the initial line calculation _dce_dsc_initial_line_calc(), _dce_dsc_ich_reset_override_needed() , _dce_dsc_setup_helper().

All of these are again common between DSI and DP.

So in addition to thinking about what can be moved to the drm_dsc_helper also think about what is specific to MSM but common to DSI and DP modules.

That was the bigger picture I was trying to convey.