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2021/08/06

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01:09
anuejn
good question
01:27
Dest123
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02:19
tpw_rules
some of the training logic runs in the csr_domain because there's no reason for it not to
02:20
tpw_rules
oh i was thinking about BitwiseAccessibleInteger, is there really a need for that or bitarray?
02:20
tpw_rules
i just treat them as regular integers
02:22
tpw_rules
vup: also i added the assert that the bus word width is exactly 32 because if it's greater then the split_stages calculation has to change, right?
02:22
tpw_rules
and the write port granularity and stufff
02:27
tpw_rules
also not sure i 100% agree with wholesale marking the csr_domain as false path. maybe only for StatusSignals
02:42
vup
tpw_rules: BitwiseAccessibleInteger is also used elsewhere in the codebase, so its just reused here
02:42
tpw_rules
i mean BitwiseAccessibleInteger as what the control and status signals are mapped to in pydrive. i think it would be fine if it were a regular integer
02:42
tpw_rules
pydriver*
02:43
vup
tpw_rules: I think the gateware is still correct if the bus word width is bigger than 32bits if you use the __{get,set}item__ helpers, as those mask the values accordingly
02:43
vup
tpw_rules: they are just regular integers
02:43
vup
BitwiseAccessibleInteger is just use for some inbetween conversions
02:44
tpw_rules
oh, then what is the change anuejn is proposing?
02:44
vup
we were thinking about using bitarray, but we now disregarded this idea
02:45
vup
now the PR is a bugfix for the problem that causes the buffer[n]_base values to not be read correctly
02:45
vup
and also some performance optimizations
02:45
tpw_rules
btw, i don't think the buffer[n]_level values were being read correctly either, does this fix them too?
02:45
vup
a simple read for a toplevel variable (design.something) is now down to 33us from 410us for me
02:45
tpw_rules
ah that's great
02:45
vup
tpw_rules: yes it fixes the level values aswell
02:47
tpw_rules
i still don't believe you on the bus_word_width... because bus_word_width is the width of the data attribute in handle_read and handle_write, correct? so the 32 * i in there would have to change
02:47
vup
ohh yeah
02:48
vup
that is true
02:48
vup
sorry somehow I missed that
02:55
tpw_rules
i wonder if it would be faster to change DevMemAccessor to use memory mapping and ctypes
02:55
vup
it uses memory mapping
02:56
tpw_rules
i mean instead of seek and read
02:56
vup
yeah
02:56
vup
thats already upcoming
02:56
tpw_rules
you should be able to cast it to an array of 32 bit integers iirc
02:59
tpw_rules
but ok, i will see what it looks like when you guys are done
02:59
tpw_rules
if i can figure out the git, i will rebase my PR on the main branch as it stands and delete the DevMemAccessor hack commit
02:59
tpw_rules
(tomorrow)
03:00
vup
ð
03:49
vup
tpw_rules: so with this it meets timing for me https://paste.niemo.de/togujapafa.patch
03:50
vup
(this is with vivado 2019.2, I would hope a newer version does even better...)
03:51
vup
also this https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/naps/pull/23 contains the fix for the pydriver and additional performance optimizations
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05:34
tpw_rules
vup: did you have to add the FIFO on line 28 before the gearbox?
05:34
tpw_rules
i did not
05:34
tpw_rules
well, if i wanted it to pass at 125MHz
05:34
tpw_rules
at 250 it does not pass, but i'm pretty sure in your version the gearbox runs at 125MHz
05:35
tpw_rules
but i will take that diff into consideration, thank you for the research
05:39
tpw_rules
i might replace the gearbox anyway, i think it is inefficent. vivado mentions a very wide shift register, i think much wider than necessary.
05:40
tpw_rules
but whatever i will research more tomorrow
06:09
tpw_rules
also re PR #23, don't merge it yet. i think it can be made even faster. i will fiddle tomorrow too
06:09
tpw_rules
how exactly did you test the 33us figure?
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08:26
se6astian
good day
08:26
se6astian
wiki spam continues with accounts already created before
08:27
se6astian
not that many though, cleaned 2 pages
11:59
Bertl_oO
morning folks!
12:27
anuejn
tpw_rules: your problem should be fixed now: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/naps/pull/23
12:28
anuejn
also you should get much better performance from pydriver
14:10
vup
tpw_rules: I tested in with the camera.py design on the micro, just using
14:10
vup
timeit.timeit(lamba: design.sensor_reset_n, number=...)
14:11
vup
Would be curious to see if you can get it significantly faster
14:12
vup
To me anything faster than ~15us seems very hard to achieve
14:19
vup
(For the general purpose case)
14:20
vup
SocMemory could probably be sped up a lot more
17:13
tpw_rules
vup: https://paste.niemo.de/osucewulej.lua this is what i meant with ctypes. this drops from 33us to 24us
17:13
tpw_rules
at the cost of read and write being unable to accept aligned offsets
17:15
tpw_rules
non-aligned offsets*
17:29
tpw_rules
it also makes maybe a 15% improvement to download time for the ILA in the pattern test
17:33
vup
tpw_rules: interesting, would not have thought that this helps that much
17:33
vup
want to open a PR with it?
17:35
tpw_rules
yeah, are you okay with the compromise about non-aligned offsets? i think i can also add some improvements to SocMemory and the ILA to the PR
17:36
vup
what I am currently thinking is having a slow and a fast version of the DevMemAccessor and insert the slow version if the memory map contains any unaligend addresses and the fast version if it does not
17:39
tpw_rules
my question is why would it have unaligned addresses
17:40
vup
well I think you currently can just reques a unaligned address, when creating a {Status,Control}Signal and it will get passed through that way
17:44
tpw_rules
i guess i still see the whole pydriver thing as mostly a debugging aid. so it makes sense to me to make illegal special cases like unaligned addresses and multiple fields per address (i.e. Value.bit_start != 0)
17:47
fredy
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17:47
anuejn
you too feel fancy having a jitsi session?
17:48
anuejn
s/too/two
17:48
vup
sounds good to me
17:50
tpw_rules
sure
17:55
anuejn
oh sorry bad missplaning from my side I dont really have time :(
17:55
vup
lol
17:55
anuejn
maybe later this eveneng but I cant say currently
17:55
anuejn
planing is not my strength
17:56
tpw_rules
later would be better for me too
17:56
vup
sure, should work for me aswell
18:22
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19:29
tpw_rules
hm, trying to write to a StatusSignal with pydriver causes a bus error
19:30
tpw_rules
which isn't entirely unexpected, but it's a bit of a sharp edge
19:34
vup
do you think the axi infra should silently ignore writes to StatusSignals, or just pydriver should catch them?
19:57
tpw_rules
i think pydriver should probably catch them and throw an AttributeError. does it actually know? i don't think it's super worth changing if it involves changing more than a couple lines
19:58
tpw_rules
silently ignoring would be a terrible idea
20:03
vup
pydriver doesn't know right now, but it would not be too hard to teach it
20:08
tpw_rules
vup: what exactly did you mean by "The SocMemory changes should also be reflected in the test_smoke test of soc_memory_test.py."? those tests pass
20:08
tpw_rules
i'm not really sure what additional test to add, the smoke test proves that reading and writing works
20:10
vup
test_smoke passes, but it should probably read from aligned addresses over the whole address space, right now it reads from (with the change) unsensical addresses and only tests the first fourth of the address space
20:11
tpw_rules
ohh yes, so just multiply by 4
20:11
vup
yeah
20:12
tpw_rules
i was also thinking of separating it into a write pass and a read pass because that would have caught the unaligned bug i fixed
20:15
vup
sure makes sense
20:15
tpw_rules
alright, i've done everything i want to for https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/naps/pull/21 . it's ready to merge once you review it
20:15
tpw_rules
(and i address your comments)
21:43
anuejn
okay i am ready and chilling in the jitsi
21:52
tpw_rules
anuejn: do you see me?
21:52
anuejn
nope
21:52
tpw_rules
blah. it keeps alternating between saying connection good and connection lost
21:52
anuejn
can you hear me?
21:52
tpw_rules
no
21:52
tpw_rules
but i see that you rae there
21:52
anuejn
bad luck
21:53
tpw_rules
you are*
21:53
anuejn
yeah me too
22:43
vup
Bertl_oO: se6astian: is the current beta gateware doing 60fps at the full sensor resolution?
23:29
Bertl_oO
bope
23:29
Bertl_oO
*nope
23:29
Bertl_oO
hdmi does 60FPS, sensor max 40FPS
23:30
vup
I see
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