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Benjamin Gaignard 5423e2d220 media: verisilicon: Add reference buffer compression feature
Reference frame compression is a feature added in the G2 decoder to
compress frame buffers so that the bandwidth of storing/loading
reference frames can be reduced, especially with high resolution decoded
streams.

The impact of compressed frames is confirmed when using perf to monitor
the number of memory accesses with or without the compression feature.
The following command:

perf stat -a -e \
imx8_ddr0/cycles/,imx8_ddr0/read-cycles/,imx8_ddr0/write-cycles/ \
gst-launch-1.0 filesrc \
location=Jockey_3840x2160_120fps_420_8bit_HEVC_RAW.hevc ! queue ! \
h265parse ! v4l2slh265dec ! video/x-raw,format=NV12 ! fakesink

Gives us these results without the compression feature:
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

        1711300345      imx8_ddr0/cycles/
         892207924      imx8_ddr0/read-cycles/
        1291785864      imx8_ddr0/write-cycles/

      13.760048353 seconds time elapsed

With the compression feature:
Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

         274526799      imx8_ddr0/cycles/
         453120194      imx8_ddr0/read-cycles/
         833391434      imx8_ddr0/write-cycles/

      18.257831534 seconds time elapsed

As expected the number of read/write cycles are really lower when
compression is used.

Since storing the compression data requires more memory a module
parameter named 'hevc_use_compression' is used to enable/disable
this feature and, by default, compression isn't used.

Enabling the compression feature means that the output-frames of the
decoder
are stored with a specific compression pixel-format. Since this
pixel format is unknown, this patch restrains the compression feature
usage to the cases where post-processor pixel-formats (NV12 or NV15)
are selected by the applications.

The Fluster compliance HEVC test suite score is still 141/147 with this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
2024-08-28 10:01:10 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.