From: Joseph Lo <josephl-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Cc: "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" <linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>, "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" <linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] big.LITTLE low-level CPU and cluster power management Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:44:08 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1358217848.8513.14.camel@jlo-ubuntu-64.nvidia.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301140849020.6300-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org> On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 22:05 +0800, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Joseph Lo wrote: > > > Hi Nicolas, > > > > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 08:20 +0800, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > This is the initial public posting of the initial support for big.LITTLE. > > > Included here is the code required to safely power up and down CPUs in a > > > b.L system, whether this is via CPU hotplug, a cpuidle driver or the > > > Linaro b.L in-kernel switcher[*] on top of this. Only SMP secondary > > > boot and CPU hotplug support is included at this time. Getting to this > > > point already represents a significcant chunk of code as illustrated by > > > the diffstat below. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for introducing this series. > > I am taking a look at this series. It introduced an algorithm for > > syncing and avoid racing when syncing the power status of clusters and > > CPUs. Do you think these codes could have a chance to become a generic > > framework? > > Yes. As I mentioned before, the bL_ prefix is implied only by the fact > that big.LITTLE was the motivation for creating this code. > > > The Tegra chip series had a similar design for CPU clusters and it > had > > limitation that the CPU0 always needs to be the last CPU to be shut down > > before cluster power down as well. I believe it can also get benefits of > > this works. We indeed need a similar algorithm to sync CPUs power status > > before cluster power down and switching. > > > > The "bL_entry.c", "bL_entry.S", "bL_entry.h", "vlock.h" and "vlock.S" > > looks have a chance to be a common framework for ARM platform even if it > > just support one cluster. Because some systems had the limitations for > > cluster power down. That's why the coupled cpuidle been introduced. And > > this framework could be enabled automatically if platform dependent or > > by menuconfig. > > Absolutely. > So do you have a plan to make it become a generic framework in this series or later work? (And I will add some common power sync wrapper functions that based on this framework for all Tegra series.) > > > For ex, > > select CPUS_CLUSTERS_POWER_SYNC_FRAMEWORK if SMP && CPU_PM > > > > How do you think of this suggestion? > > I'd prefer a more concise name though. > Sure. :-) Thanks, Joseph
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From: josephl@nvidia.com (Joseph Lo) To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: [PATCH 00/16] big.LITTLE low-level CPU and cluster power management Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:44:08 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1358217848.8513.14.camel@jlo-ubuntu-64.nvidia.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301140849020.6300@xanadu.home> On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 22:05 +0800, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Joseph Lo wrote: > > > Hi Nicolas, > > > > On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 08:20 +0800, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > This is the initial public posting of the initial support for big.LITTLE. > > > Included here is the code required to safely power up and down CPUs in a > > > b.L system, whether this is via CPU hotplug, a cpuidle driver or the > > > Linaro b.L in-kernel switcher[*] on top of this. Only SMP secondary > > > boot and CPU hotplug support is included at this time. Getting to this > > > point already represents a significcant chunk of code as illustrated by > > > the diffstat below. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for introducing this series. > > I am taking a look at this series. It introduced an algorithm for > > syncing and avoid racing when syncing the power status of clusters and > > CPUs. Do you think these codes could have a chance to become a generic > > framework? > > Yes. As I mentioned before, the bL_ prefix is implied only by the fact > that big.LITTLE was the motivation for creating this code. > > > The Tegra chip series had a similar design for CPU clusters and it > had > > limitation that the CPU0 always needs to be the last CPU to be shut down > > before cluster power down as well. I believe it can also get benefits of > > this works. We indeed need a similar algorithm to sync CPUs power status > > before cluster power down and switching. > > > > The "bL_entry.c", "bL_entry.S", "bL_entry.h", "vlock.h" and "vlock.S" > > looks have a chance to be a common framework for ARM platform even if it > > just support one cluster. Because some systems had the limitations for > > cluster power down. That's why the coupled cpuidle been introduced. And > > this framework could be enabled automatically if platform dependent or > > by menuconfig. > > Absolutely. > So do you have a plan to make it become a generic framework in this series or later work? (And I will add some common power sync wrapper functions that based on this framework for all Tegra series.) > > > For ex, > > select CPUS_CLUSTERS_POWER_SYNC_FRAMEWORK if SMP && CPU_PM > > > > How do you think of this suggestion? > > I'd prefer a more concise name though. > Sure. :-) Thanks, Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-15 2:44 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2013-01-10 0:20 [PATCH 00/16] big.LITTLE low-level CPU and cluster power management Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 01/16] ARM: b.L: secondary kernel entry code Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 7:12 ` Stephen Boyd 2013-01-10 15:30 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 15:34 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-10 16:47 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 11:45 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-11 12:05 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi 2013-01-11 12:19 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 23:05 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 1:26 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 10:55 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 11:35 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-11 17:16 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 18:10 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 18:30 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-03-07 7:37 ` Pavel Machek 2013-03-07 8:57 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 02/16] ARM: b.L: introduce the CPU/cluster power API Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 23:08 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 2:30 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 10:58 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 11:29 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-11 17:26 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 18:33 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 18:41 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 19:54 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 03/16] ARM: b.L: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 12:01 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 19:04 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 11:30 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 16:53 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-10 17:59 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 21:50 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-10 22:31 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 10:36 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 22:32 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 23:13 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 1:50 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 11:09 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-11 17:46 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 18:07 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-11 18:34 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-14 17:08 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-14 17:15 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-14 18:10 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-14 21:34 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 04/16] ARM: b.L: Add baremetal voting mutexes Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 23:18 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 3:15 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 11:03 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-11 16:57 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 05/16] ARM: bL_head: vlock-based first man election Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 06/16] ARM: b.L: generic SMP secondary bringup and hotplug support Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 18:02 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-14 18:05 ` Achin Gupta 2013-01-15 6:32 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-15 11:18 ` Achin Gupta 2013-01-15 11:26 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-15 18:53 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-14 16:35 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 16:51 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-15 19:09 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 07/16] ARM: bL_platsmp.c: close the kernel entry gate before hot-unplugging a CPU Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-14 16:37 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 16:53 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-14 17:00 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 17:11 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-14 17:15 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-14 17:23 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 18:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2013-01-14 18:49 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-15 18:40 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-16 16:06 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 08/16] ARM: bL_platsmp.c: make sure the GIC interface of a dying CPU is disabled Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 18:07 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 19:07 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-12 6:50 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-12 16:47 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-13 4:37 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-14 17:53 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi 2013-01-14 16:39 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 16:54 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-14 17:02 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 17:18 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-14 17:24 ` Will Deacon 2013-01-14 17:56 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 09/16] ARM: vexpress: Select the correct SMP operations at run-time Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 10/16] ARM: vexpress: introduce DCSCB support Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 18:12 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 19:13 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-12 6:52 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 11/16] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: add CPU use counts to the power up/down API implementation Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 12/16] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: do not hardcode number of CPUs per cluster Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 13/16] drivers: misc: add ARM CCI support Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 18:20 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 19:22 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-12 6:53 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-15 18:34 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 14/16] ARM: TC2: ensure powerdown-time data is flushed from cache Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 18:50 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 19:13 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-11 11:38 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 15/16] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: handle platform coherency exit/setup and CCI Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 12:05 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-11 18:27 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-11 19:28 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-12 7:21 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-14 12:25 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi 2013-01-15 6:23 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-15 18:20 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-16 6:33 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-16 10:03 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi 2013-01-16 10:12 ` Santosh Shilimkar 2013-01-10 0:20 ` [PATCH 16/16] ARM: vexpress/dcscb: probe via device tree Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 0:46 ` [PATCH 00/16] big.LITTLE low-level CPU and cluster power management Rob Herring 2013-01-10 5:04 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-10 23:01 ` Will Deacon [not found] ` <1357777251-13541-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> 2013-01-14 9:56 ` Joseph Lo 2013-01-14 9:56 ` Joseph Lo [not found] ` <1358157392.19304.243.camel-yx3yKKdKkHfc7b1ADBJPm0n48jw8i0AO@public.gmane.org> 2013-01-14 14:05 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-14 14:05 ` Nicolas Pitre [not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301140849020.6300-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org> 2013-01-15 2:44 ` Joseph Lo [this message] 2013-01-15 2:44 ` Joseph Lo [not found] ` <1358217848.8513.14.camel-yx3yKKdKkHfc7b1ADBJPm0n48jw8i0AO@public.gmane.org> 2013-01-15 16:44 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-15 16:44 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-16 16:02 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-16 16:02 ` Catalin Marinas [not found] ` <20130116160242.GB31318-5wv7dgnIgG8@public.gmane.org> 2013-01-16 21:18 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-01-16 21:18 ` Nicolas Pitre [not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1301161614390.6300-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org> 2013-01-17 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-17 17:55 ` Catalin Marinas 2013-01-15 18:31 ` Dave Martin 2013-01-15 18:31 ` Dave Martin 2013-03-07 8:27 ` Pavel Machek 2013-03-07 9:12 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-03-07 9:40 ` Pavel Machek 2013-03-07 9:56 ` Nicolas Pitre 2013-03-07 14:51 ` Pavel Machek 2013-03-07 15:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
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