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From: santosh.shilimkar@ti•com (Santosh Shilimkar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/6] Documentation: arm: define DT idle states bindings
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:13:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A21D17.10206@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1406181704240.16842@knanqh.ubzr>

On Wednesday 18 June 2014 05:09 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 18 June 2014 04:51 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 18 June 2014 01:36 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
>>>> [..]
>>>>> +	To correctly specify idle states timing and energy related properties,
>>>>> +	the following definitions identify the different execution phases
>>>>> +	a CPU goes through to enter and exit idle states and the implied
>>>>> +	energy metrics:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +	..__[EXEC]__|__[PREP]__|__[ENTRY]__|__[IDLE]__|__[EXIT]__|__[EXEC]__..
>>>>> +		    |          |           |          |          |
>>>>> +
>>>>> +		    |<------ entry ------->|
>>>>> +		    |       latency        |
>>>>> +						      |<- exit ->|
>>>>> +						      |  latency |
>>>>> +		    |<-------- min-residency -------->|
>>>>> +			       |<-------  wakeup-latency ------->|
>>>>> +
>>>> I don't know the wakeup latency makes much sense and also correct.
>>>> Hardware wakeup latency is actually exit latency. Is it for failed
>>>> or abort-able ilde case ? We are adding this as a new parameter
>>>> at least from idle states perspective. I think we should just
>>>> avoid it.
>>>
>>> I explained the rationale for this parameter in a previous email but 
>>> Lorenzo didn't carry it over. To be clearer, this should be "worst case 
>>> wake-up latency".  It is of interest for PMQOS.  This is the maximum 
>>> delay that can be expected from the moment a wake-up event is signaled 
>>> and the moment the CPU is back operational.  This is more than just exit 
>>> latency.  By default this is entry_latency + exit_latency but when there 
>>> is an abortable PREP phase then it may be shorter than that.
>>>
>> PMQOS angle is right. It is just that the idle code is not
>> going to do anything with this value. But I see a value adding it
>> instead of some one doing calculation.
> 
> The idle code should take it into account when a PMQOS restriction is in 
> effect i.e. avoid using those modes whose worst case wake-up latency is 
> too large.
> 
> And cpuidle is being migrated into the scheduler as we speak.  So some 
> of the values there, namely entry_latency and exit_latency (taken 
> separately for timing purposes) will be directly used by the scheduler 
> to decide which CPU to wake up for example.
> 
> So there is fundamentally 4 parameters if we want to comprehensively 
> support all pertinent use cases.
> 
Fair enough.

regards,
Santosh

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-18 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11 16:18 [PATCH v4 0/6] ARM generic idle states Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] Documentation: arm: define DT idle states bindings Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 18:15   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-13 16:49     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-13 17:33       ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-16 14:23         ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-16 14:48           ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-18 17:36         ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-18 18:20           ` Sebastian Capella
2014-06-18 19:27           ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-06-18 20:51             ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-18 20:55               ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-06-18 21:09                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-18 23:13                   ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2014-06-19  7:33             ` Charles Garcia-Tobin
2014-06-19 14:08               ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-06-19 15:09                 ` Charles Garcia-Tobin
2014-06-18 21:03           ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-13 17:40       ` Sebastian Capella
2014-06-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] Documentation: devicetree: psci: define CPU suspend parameter Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] drivers: cpuidle: implement OF based idle states infrastructure Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 18:24   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-12  8:46     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 18:25   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-06-12  9:03     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-13  3:48       ` Preeti U Murthy
2014-06-13 17:16         ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-07-06 10:01       ` Paul Burton
2014-06-11 18:38   ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-06-12  9:19     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] arm64: add PSCI CPU_SUSPEND based cpu_suspend support Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] drivers: cpuidle: CPU idle ARM64 driver Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-18 21:34   ` Daniel Lezcano
2014-06-19  9:30     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-19  3:02   ` Rob Herring
2014-06-19  9:08     ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2014-06-11 16:18 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] arm64: boot: dts: update rtsm aemv8 dts with PSCI and idle states Lorenzo Pieralisi

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