[PATCH v4 1/2] media: amphion: Reduce decoding latency for HEVC decoder

ming.qian at oss.nxp.com ming.qian at oss.nxp.com
Thu Mar 27 23:48:16 PDT 2025


From: Ming Qian <ming.qian at oss.nxp.com>

The amphion decoder firmware supports a low latency flush mode for the
HEVC format since v1.9.0. This feature, which is enabled when the
display delay is set to 0, can help to reduce the decoding latency by
appending some padding data to every frame.

Signed-off-by: Ming Qian <ming.qian at oss.nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne at collabora.com>
---
v4
- Add CHECK_VERSION macro
v3
- Improve commit message as recommended
v2
- Improve commit message
- Add firmware version check

 drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_malone.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_malone.c b/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_malone.c
index 5c6b2a841b6f..88f8c16a451e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_malone.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/amphion/vpu_malone.c
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@
 
 #define MALONE_DEC_FMT_RV_MASK			BIT(21)
 
+#define MALONE_VERSION_MASK			0xFFFFF
+#define MALONE_VERSION(maj, min, inc)		\
+		((((maj) << 16) | ((min) << 16) | (inc)) & MALONE_VERSION_MASK)
+#define CHECK_VERSION(iface, maj, min)		\
+		(((iface)->fw_version & MALONE_VERSION_MASK) >= MALONE_VERSION(maj, min, 0))
+
 enum vpu_malone_stream_input_mode {
 	INVALID_MODE = 0,
 	FRAME_LVL,
@@ -332,6 +338,8 @@ struct vpu_dec_ctrl {
 	u32 buf_addr[VID_API_NUM_STREAMS];
 };
 
+static const struct malone_padding_scode *get_padding_scode(u32 type, u32 fmt);
+
 u32 vpu_malone_get_data_size(void)
 {
 	return sizeof(struct vpu_dec_ctrl);
@@ -654,9 +662,15 @@ static int vpu_malone_set_params(struct vpu_shared_addr *shared,
 		hc->jpg[instance].jpg_mjpeg_interlaced = 0;
 	}
 
-	hc->codec_param[instance].disp_imm = params->display_delay_enable ? 1 : 0;
-	if (malone_format != MALONE_FMT_AVC)
+	if (params->display_delay_enable &&
+	    get_padding_scode(SCODE_PADDING_BUFFLUSH, params->codec_format))
+		hc->codec_param[instance].disp_imm = 1;
+	else
 		hc->codec_param[instance].disp_imm = 0;
+
+	if (params->codec_format == V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEVC && !CHECK_VERSION(iface, 1, 9))
+		hc->codec_param[instance].disp_imm = 0;
+
 	hc->codec_param[instance].dbglog_enable = 0;
 	iface->dbglog_desc.level = 0;
 
@@ -1024,6 +1038,7 @@ static const struct malone_padding_scode padding_scodes[] = {
 	{SCODE_PADDING_EOS,      V4L2_PIX_FMT_JPEG,        {0x0, 0x0}},
 	{SCODE_PADDING_BUFFLUSH, V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264,        {0x15010000, 0x0}},
 	{SCODE_PADDING_BUFFLUSH, V4L2_PIX_FMT_H264_MVC,    {0x15010000, 0x0}},
+	{SCODE_PADDING_BUFFLUSH, V4L2_PIX_FMT_HEVC,        {0x3e010000, 0x20}},
 };
 
 static const struct malone_padding_scode padding_scode_dft = {0x0, 0x0};
@@ -1058,8 +1073,11 @@ static int vpu_malone_add_padding_scode(struct vpu_buffer *stream_buffer,
 	int ret;
 
 	ps = get_padding_scode(scode_type, pixelformat);
-	if (!ps)
+	if (!ps) {
+		if (scode_type == SCODE_PADDING_BUFFLUSH)
+			return 0;
 		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	wptr = readl(&str_buf->wptr);
 	if (wptr < stream_buffer->phys || wptr > stream_buffer->phys + stream_buffer->length)
-- 
2.43.0-rc1




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