Hi all,

I am recently getting questions about hooking the interconnect framework to SCMI, so i am starting a discussion on this problem and see who might be interested in it.

The SCMI spec contains various protocols like the "Performance domain management protocol". But none of the protocols mentioned in the current spec (3.0) seem to fit well into the concept we are using to scale interconnect bandwidth in Linux. I see that people are working in this area and there is already some support for clocks, resets etc. I am wondering what would be the right approach to support also interconnect bus scaling via SCMI.

The interconnect framework is part of the linux kernel and it's goal is to manage the hardware and tune it to the most optimal power- performance profile according to the aggregated bandwidth demand between the various endpoints in the system (SoC). This is based on the requests coming from consumer drivers.

As interconnects scaling does not map directly to any of the currently available protocols in the SCMI spec, i am curious whether there is work in progress on some other protocol that could support managing resources based on path endpoints (instead of a single ID). The interconnect framework doesn't populate every possible path, but it exposes endpoints to client drivers and the path lookup is dynamic, based on what the clients request. Maybe the SCMI host could also expose all possible endpoints and let the guest request a path from the host, based on those endpoints.

There are already suggestions to create vendor-specific SCMI protocols for that, but i fear that we may end up with more than one protocol for the same thing, so that's why it might be best to discuss it in public and have a common solution that works for everyone.

Thanks, Georgi