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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/2] ic2: mux: pca9541: add delayed-release support
Hi Peter,

Thanks for the reply! (More below.)

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 01:54:09PM PST, Peter Rosin wrote:
>On 2022-02-01 01:18, Zev Weiss wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This series adds support for a new pca9541 device-tree property
>> ("release-delay-us"), which delays releasing ownership of the bus
>> after a transaction for a configurable duration, anticipating that
>> another transaction may follow shortly. By avoiding a
>> release/reacquisition between transactions, this can provide a
>> substantial performance improvement for back-to-back operations -- on
>> a Delta AHE-50DC (ASPEED AST1250) system running OpenBMC with dozens
>> of LM25066 PMICs on PCA9541-arbitrated busses, a setting of 10000 (10
>> ms) reduces the median latency the psusensor daemon's hwmon sysfs file
>> reads from 2.28 ms to 0.99 ms (a 57% improvement).
>
>Hi!
>
>Sorry for the late reply. It seems I'm forever swamped...
>
>There is a risk with this scheme. If you have two (or more) of these
>chips on the same bus, and there are clients behind these two chips
>that have the same address, accesses to one of the clients might
>"leak through" the other arb to an unexpected client when its arb
>is in it's release-delay state.
>
>In other words, it is no coincidence that the segment lock is held
>over the whole acquire-access-release cycle.

That's not a scenario I had considered, but I think I see what you're
saying. Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly, the problematic
situation you're describing would involve multiple (sibling, not
parent/child cascaded) arbiters at distinct addresses on the same
(master-side) bus, in effect acting as a sort of "distributed mux" in
addition to arbitrating between multiple attached masters? (So kind of
an M-to-N arrangement between M masters and N busses.)

In which case if more than one of the arbiters had their downstream
busses simultaneously connected to the same master (as could result if
one were still connected due to a delayed release while the master had
already started a subsequent transaction via another arbiter), the
resulting "combined" bus could end up with address collisions between
devices downstream of the arbiters if there are common addresses in use
between the downstream busses.

>
>Sure, you can always say "don't add a release-delay when ...", but I
>see no such documentation.
>

Assuming I haven't misunderstood the above, would expanding the
description of the property in the DT binding like so be sufficient?

- release-delay-us: the number of microseconds to delay before
releasing the bus after a transaction. If unspecified the default
is zero (the bus is released immediately). Non-zero values can
reduce arbitration overhead for back-to-back transactions, at the
cost of delaying the other master's access to the bus.

If this property is employed on hardware with multiple parallel
(not cascaded) arbiters selecting between multiple downstream
busses, address conflicts can occur if a device on one of the
downstream busses uses the same address as a device on another
downstream bus. This property should thus only be used if either
(a) there is only one arbiter on the bus, (b) multiple arbiters are
strictly cascaded to a single downstream bus, or (c) all of the
devices on all downstream busses use addresses that are unique
across all of those busses.

If so I'll send a v3 with that change shortly.

Thanks,
Zev

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