[PATCH v2, 00/10] Enable two H264 encoder cores on MT8195

Irui Wang irui.wang at mediatek.com
Tue Feb 22 22:06:13 PST 2022


Dear all maintainers,

Gently ping.

Could you help to review this series of patches? 
I would be very grateful for any of your comments.

Thanks
Best Regards
On Mon, 2022-01-17 at 20:06 +0800, Irui Wang wrote:
> MT8195 has two H264 encoder cores, they have their own power-domains,
> clocks, interrupts, register base. The two H264 encoder cores can
> work
> together to achieve higher performance, it's a core mode called
> frame-racing, one core has 4K at 30fps performance, two cores can
> achieve
> 4K at 60fps.
> The two encoder core encoding process looks like this:
> 
>     VENC Core0: frm#0....frm#2....frm#4....
>     VENC Core1: ..frm#1....frm#3....frm#5....
> 
> This series of patches are used to enable the two H264 encoder cores,
> encoding process will be changed:
> As-Is: Synchronous
> V4L2_VIDIOC_QBUF#0 --> device_run(triger encoder) --> wait encoder
> IRQ -->
> encoding done with result --> job_finish
> V4l2_VIDIOC_QBUF#1 --> device_run(triger encoder) --> wait encoder
> IRQ -->
> encoding done with result --> job_finish
> ...
> 
> To-Be: Asynchronous
> V4L2_VIDIOC_QBUF#0 --> device_run(triger encoder) --> job_finish
> ..V4l2_VIDIOC_QBUF#1 --> device_run(triger encoder) --> job_finish
> (venc core0 may encode done here, done the encoding result to client)
> V4L2_VIDIOC_QBUF#2 --> device_run(triger encoder) --> job_finish.
> 
> There is no "wait encoder IRQ" synchronous call during frame-racing
> mode
> encoding process, it can full use the two encoder cores to achieve
> higher
> performance.
> 
> ---
> This series patches dependent on:
> [1]: the latest linux stage tree: 
> https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git
> 
> mtk decoder patches
> [2]: 
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/list/?series=7105
> [3]: 
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/list/?series=7131
> 
> new yaml included files
> [4]:
> 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mediatek/list/?series=551641
> [5]:
> 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mediatek/list/?series=580579
> 
> ---
> ---
> changes compared with v1:
> - of_platform_populate was used in place of the component framework.
> - new yaml file for venc cores.
> - some modifications for patch v1's review comments.
> ---
> 
> Irui Wang (10):
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Use core type to indicate h264 and vp8 enc
>   media: mtk-vcodec: export encoder functions
>   dt-bindings: media: mtk-vcodec: Adds encoder cores dt-bindings for
>     mt8195
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Enable venc dual core usage
>   media: mtk-vcodec: mtk-vcodec: Rewrite venc power manage interface
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Add venc power on/off interface
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Rewrite venc clock interface
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Add more extra processing for dual-core mode
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Add dual core mode encode process
>   media: mtk-vcodec: Done encode result to client
> 
>  .../media/mediatek,vcodec-encoder-core.yaml   | 214
> +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/media/platform/mtk-vcodec/Makefile    |   4 +-
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_drv.h      |  44 +++-
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc.c      | 109 ++++++---
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc.h      |   7 +-
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_core.c | 187 +++++++++++++++
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_core.h |  36 +++
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_drv.c  | 118 ++++++----
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_pm.c   | 187 +++++++++++++--
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_pm.h   |  11 +-
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_util.c     |  19 ++
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/mtk_vcodec_util.h     |   5 +
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/venc/venc_h264_if.c   | 216 +++++++++++++++-
> --
>  .../platform/mtk-vcodec/venc/venc_vp8_if.c    |   3 +-
>  .../media/platform/mtk-vcodec/venc_drv_if.c   |  79 +++++--
>  .../media/platform/mtk-vcodec/venc_drv_if.h   |   7 +
>  .../media/platform/mtk-vcodec/venc_vpu_if.c   |  10 +-
>  .../media/platform/mtk-vcodec/venc_vpu_if.h   |   3 +-
>  18 files changed, 1097 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek,vcodec-encoder-
> core.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/mtk-
> vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_core.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/mtk-
> vcodec/mtk_vcodec_enc_core.h
> 


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