drm/amd/display: Freesync does not engage on some displays
authorHarmanprit Tatla <htatla@amd.com>
Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:46:38 +0000 (16:46 -0400)
committerAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Mon, 5 Nov 2018 19:20:41 +0000 (14:20 -0500)
[Why]
Current render margin time is not sufficient to compute exit frame
time for most monitors.

[How]
Declared  render margin in FPS to compute a exit frame rate that is
4 FPS above the minimum FPS required to engage FreeSync.
 Also did code clean-up to remove redundancies.

Signed-off-by: Harmanprit Tatla <htatla@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Koo <Anthony.Koo@amd.com>
Acked-by: Bhawanpreet Lakha <Bhawanpreet.Lakha@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/modules/freesync/freesync.c

index 4018c71..620a171 100644 (file)
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 #define RENDER_TIMES_MAX_COUNT 10
 /* Threshold to exit BTR (to avoid frequent enter-exits at the lower limit) */
 #define BTR_EXIT_MARGIN 2000
+/*Threshold to exit fixed refresh rate*/
+#define FIXED_REFRESH_EXIT_MARGIN_IN_HZ 4
 /* Number of consecutive frames to check before entering/exiting fixed refresh*/
 #define FIXED_REFRESH_ENTER_FRAME_COUNT 5
 #define FIXED_REFRESH_EXIT_FRAME_COUNT 5
@@ -257,40 +259,14 @@ static void apply_below_the_range(struct core_freesync *core_freesync,
                if (in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active) {
                        in_out_vrr->btr.frame_counter = 0;
                        in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active = false;
-
-               /* Exit Fixed Refresh mode */
-               } else if (in_out_vrr->fixed.fixed_active) {
-
-                       in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter++;
-
-                       if (in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter >
-                                       FIXED_REFRESH_EXIT_FRAME_COUNT) {
-                               in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter = 0;
-                               in_out_vrr->fixed.fixed_active = false;
-                       }
                }
        } else if (last_render_time_in_us > max_render_time_in_us) {
                /* Enter Below the Range */
-               if (!in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active &&
-                               in_out_vrr->btr.btr_enabled) {
-                       in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active = true;
-
-               /* Enter Fixed Refresh mode */
-               } else if (!in_out_vrr->fixed.fixed_active &&
-                               !in_out_vrr->btr.btr_enabled) {
-                       in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter++;
-
-                       if (in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter >
-                                       FIXED_REFRESH_ENTER_FRAME_COUNT) {
-                               in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter = 0;
-                               in_out_vrr->fixed.fixed_active = true;
-                       }
-               }
+               in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active = true;
        }
 
        /* BTR set to "not active" so disengage */
        if (!in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active) {
-               in_out_vrr->btr.btr_active = false;
                in_out_vrr->btr.inserted_duration_in_us = 0;
                in_out_vrr->btr.frames_to_insert = 0;
                in_out_vrr->btr.frame_counter = 0;
@@ -375,7 +351,12 @@ static void apply_fixed_refresh(struct core_freesync *core_freesync,
        bool update = false;
        unsigned int max_render_time_in_us = in_out_vrr->max_duration_in_us;
 
-       if (last_render_time_in_us + BTR_EXIT_MARGIN < max_render_time_in_us) {
+       //Compute the exit refresh rate and exit frame duration
+       unsigned int exit_refresh_rate_in_milli_hz = ((1000000000/max_render_time_in_us)
+                       + (1000*FIXED_REFRESH_EXIT_MARGIN_IN_HZ));
+       unsigned int exit_frame_duration_in_us = 1000000000/exit_refresh_rate_in_milli_hz;
+
+       if (last_render_time_in_us < exit_frame_duration_in_us) {
                /* Exit Fixed Refresh mode */
                if (in_out_vrr->fixed.fixed_active) {
                        in_out_vrr->fixed.frame_counter++;