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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	<linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
	Shane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] sd: change to auto suspend mode
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:12:44 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1301281011570.1997-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130128085651.GA2568@aaronlu.sh.intel.com>

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Aaron Lu wrote:

> > Someone just asked about the default autosuspend delay, and I realized
> > your patch series doesn't set one.  Since we don't know the properties
> > of the disk drive at this point (or even whether the device is a disk
> > drive), the only safe course is to call
> > 
> > 	pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(&sdev->sdev_gendev, -1);
> > 
> > before calling blk_pm_runtime_init().  Then autosuspends will be 
> > prevented until userspace writes a non-negative value into the device's 
> > control/autosuspend_delay_ms file.
> 
> Shall we do it inside blk_pm_runtime_init? This way, we do not need to
> do it for every driver. And for drivers that do know a proper value for
> autosuspend delay, they can call pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay
> somewhere after blk_pm_runtime_init.

Yes, that seems like a good approach.  Be sure to mention it in the 
kerneldoc.

Alan Stern


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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
	Shane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] sd: change to auto suspend mode
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:12:44 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1301281011570.1997-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130128085651.GA2568@aaronlu.sh.intel.com>

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Aaron Lu wrote:

> > Someone just asked about the default autosuspend delay, and I realized
> > your patch series doesn't set one.  Since we don't know the properties
> > of the disk drive at this point (or even whether the device is a disk
> > drive), the only safe course is to call
> > 
> > 	pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(&sdev->sdev_gendev, -1);
> > 
> > before calling blk_pm_runtime_init().  Then autosuspends will be 
> > prevented until userspace writes a non-negative value into the device's 
> > control/autosuspend_delay_ms file.
> 
> Shall we do it inside blk_pm_runtime_init? This way, we do not need to
> do it for every driver. And for drivers that do know a proper value for
> autosuspend delay, they can call pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay
> somewhere after blk_pm_runtime_init.

Yes, that seems like a good approach.  Be sure to mention it in the 
kerneldoc.

Alan Stern


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-28 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-16  9:02 [PATCH v7 0/4] block layer runtime pm Aaron Lu
2013-01-16  9:02 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] block: add a flag to identify PM request Aaron Lu
2013-01-16  9:02 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] block: add runtime pm helpers Aaron Lu
2013-01-16  9:02 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] block: implement runtime pm strategy Aaron Lu
2013-01-16 15:30   ` Alan Stern
2013-01-16 15:30     ` Alan Stern
2013-01-17  5:13     ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-17 15:11       ` Alan Stern
2013-01-17 15:11         ` Alan Stern
2013-01-18  8:27         ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-18 15:26           ` Alan Stern
2013-01-18 15:26             ` Alan Stern
2013-01-19  6:24             ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-19 18:11               ` Alan Stern
2013-01-19 18:11                 ` Alan Stern
2013-01-28  9:21                 ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-28 15:11                   ` Alan Stern
2013-01-17  6:31     ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-16  9:02 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] sd: change to auto suspend mode Aaron Lu
2013-01-18 21:25   ` Alan Stern
2013-01-18 21:25     ` Alan Stern
2013-01-21 12:44     ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-28  8:56     ` Aaron Lu
2013-01-28 15:12       ` Alan Stern [this message]
2013-01-28 15:12         ` Alan Stern

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