On 5/3/2023 8:58 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
> On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 4:49 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@amd.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/25/2023 5:09 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 9:36 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@amd.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 4/19/2023 11:15 AM, Jerin Jacob wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:24 PM Sivaprasad Tummala
>>>>> <sivaprasad.tumm...@amd.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A new API to allow power monitoring condition on event port to
>>>>>> optimize power when no events are arriving on an event port for
>>>>>> the worker core to process in an eventdev based pipelined application.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tumm...@amd.com>
>>>>>> + *
>>>>>> + * @param dev_id
>>>>>> + *   Eventdev id
>>>>>> + * @param port_id
>>>>>> + *   Eventdev port id
>>>>>> + * @param pmc
>>>>>> + *   The pointer to power-optimized monitoring condition structure.
>>>>>> + *
>>>>>> + * @return
>>>>>> + *   - 0: Success.
>>>>>> + *   -ENOTSUP: Operation not supported.
>>>>>> + *   -EINVAL: Invalid parameters.
>>>>>> + *   -ENODEV: Invalid device ID.
>>>>>> + */
>>>>>> +__rte_experimental
>>>>>> +int
>>>>>> +rte_event_port_get_monitor_addr(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t port_id,
>>>>>> +               struct rte_power_monitor_cond *pmc);
>>>>>
>>>>> + eventdev driver maintainers
>>>>>
>>>>> I think, we don't need to expose this application due to applications
>>>>> 1)To make applications to be transparent whether power saving is enabled 
>>>>> or not?
>>>>> 2)Some HW and Arch already supports power managent in driver and in HW
>>>>> (Not using  CPU architecture directly)
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, that will be translated to following,
>>>>> a) Add rte_event_port_power_saving_ena_dis(uint8_t dev_id, uint8_t
>>>>> port_id, bool ena) for controlling power saving in slowpath.
>>>>> b) Create reusable PMD private function based on the CPU architecture
>>>>> power saving primitive to cover the PMD don't have native power saving
>>>>> support.
>>>>> c)Update rte_event_dequeue_burst() burst of PMD callback to use (b).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jerin,
>>>
>>> Hi Ferruh,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> ethdev approach seems applied here.
>>>
>>> Understands that. But none of the NIC HW supports power management at
>>> HW level like eventdev, so that way
>>> for what we are doing for ethdev is a correct abstraction for ethdev.
>>>
>>
>> What I understand is there is HW based event manager and SW based ones,
>> SW based ones can benefit more from CPU power optimizations, for HW
>> event managers if there is not enough benefit they can just ignore the
>> feature.
>>
>>>>
>>>> In ethdev, 'rte_event_port_get_monitor_addr()' equivalent is
>>>> 'rte_eth_get_monitor_addr()'.
>>>>
>>>> Although 'rte_eth_get_monitor_addr()' is public API, it is currently
>>>> only called from Rx/Tx callback functions implemented in the power library.
>>>> But I assume intention to make it public is to enable users to implement
>>>> their own callback functions that has custom algorithm for the power
>>>> management.
>>>
>>> If there is a use case for customizing with own callback, we can provide 
>>> that.
>>> Provided NULL is valid with default algorithm.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> And probably same is true for the 'rte_event_port_get_monitor_addr()'.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Also instead of implementing power features for withing PMDs, isn't it
>>>> better to have a common eventdev layer for it?
>>>
>>> We can have rte_evetdev_pmd_* APIs as non-public APIs.
>>> My only objection is to NOT introduce _monitor_ APIs at eventdev level,
>>> Instead, _monitor_ is one way to do it in SW, So we need higher level
>>> of abstraction.
>>>
>>
>> I see, this seems a trade off between flexibility and usability. If
>> application has access to _monitor_ APIs, they can be more flexible to
>> implement their own logic.
> 
> OK.
> 
>>
>> Another option can be application provides the policy with an API and
>> monitor API used to realize the policy, but for this case it can be
>> challenge to find and implement correct policies.
> 
> OK. If we can enumerate the policies, then it will be ideal.
> On plus side, there will not be any changes in needed in lib/power/
> 

If we are talking about a power framework that user defines policies, I
expect parsing/defining policies will be in the power library and will
require changes in the power library anyway.

But as mentioned above it is difficult to define a proper policy, this
is not really related to eventdev, more a power library issue. We can
continue to provide flexibility to user in eventdev and discuss the
policy if a wider forum.

> 
>>
>>>>
>>>> For the PMDs benefit from HW event manager, just not implementing
>>>> .get_monitor_addr() dev_ops will make them free from power related APIs.
>>>
>>> But application fast path code gets diverged by exposing low level 
>>> primitives.
>>>
>>
>> I am not clear with concern above, but for application that use default
>> callbacks, 'rte_power_eventdev_pmgmt_port_enable()' needs to be called
>> to enable this feature, if not called datapath is not impacted.
>> And if not dequeue callback added at all, custom or default, data path
>> is not impacted at all.
> 
> Concerns are around following code[1] when callback is not registered
> for this use case.
> In eventdev, we are using _one packet at a time_ for a lot of use case
> with latency critical workload like L1 processing.
> On such cases, the following code will add up.
> 
> [1]
>   cb = __atomic_load_n((void **)&fp_ops->ev_port.clbk[port_id],
>     __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
>   if (unlikely(cb != NULL))
>        nb_rx = rte_event_dequeue_callbacks(dev_id, port_id, ev, nb_rx, cb);
> 
> I see two options,
> 1) Enumerate the power policy and let driver implement through
> non-public PMD helper functions
> OR
> 2)Move the power management callback to driver via non-public PMD
> helper functions to avoid cost of
> PMDs where power managment done in HW and to remove above extra check
> when NO callback is registered[1]
> 

Got it, yes there is an additional check with event callbacks, we can
add a compiler flag around it as done in ethdev to let it not compiled
when not needed, will it work?

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