Re: [PATCH v3, 00/10] Enable two H264 encoder core on MT8195

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 17/03/22 09:22, Irui Wang ha scritto:
> 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@30fps performance, two cores can achieve
> 4K@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.
> 

Hello Irui,
like v1 and v2, also this version of the series will crash the kernel when
trying to encode.

Before pushing the next series, you shall ensure that it is not crashing
the entire kernel, hence, please test your code with gstreamer.


Please use the following pipeline to test:

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc num-buffers=100 ! v4l2h264enc ! queue ! h264parse ! 
qtmux ! filesink location=test.mov


Regards,
Angelo