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* [RFC PATCH 0/2] Better domain idle from device wakeup patterns
@ 2020-09-02 23:25 Lina Iyer
  2020-09-02 23:25 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] PM / runtime: register device's next wakeup Lina Iyer
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From: Lina Iyer @ 2020-09-02 23:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rjw, ulf.hansson, linux-pm; +Cc: linux-arm-msm, Lina Iyer

Hello,

I was looking for an option to do better power management for some
domains where the devices enter runtime PM in a predictable fashion. For
example a display device that sends a vsync interrupt every 16 ms for a
60 Hz panel. These interrupts are not timer interrupts but tend to
interrupt periodically to service the workflow and the devices and
domains may go back to idle soon after. Two domains are affected by this
- the device's PM domain and the CPU PM domain.

As a first step, I am looking to solve for the device's PM domain idle
state (and hopefully solve for the CPU PM domains subsequently). The PM
domain could have multiple idle states and/or the enter/exit latencies
could be high. In either case, it may not always be beneficial to power
off the domain, only to turn it back on before satisfying the idle state
residency. When the wakeup is known for the device, we could use that to
determine the worthiness of entering a domain idle state. Only the
device can tell us when the future event would be and that could change
as the usecase changes. Like, when the panel refresh rate increases to
120 Hz. If this information was made available to runtime PM, we could
use that in the domain governor to determine a suitable idle state. This
is the idea behind these patches.

In the first patch, I am proposing an API for devices to specify their
wakeup as a time in the future and in the second patch, I am updating
the PM domain governor to use this information to determine the idle
state. I have not had a chance to test this out yet, but I wanted to
know if I am on the right track.

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Thanks,
Lina


Lina Iyer (2):
  PM / runtime: register device's next wakeup
  PM / Domains: use device's next wakeup to determine domain idle state

 drivers/base/power/domain_governor.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/base/power/runtime.c         | 31 ++++++++++
 include/linux/pm.h                   |  2 +
 include/linux/pm_domain.h            |  1 +
 include/linux/pm_runtime.h           |  1 +
 5 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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2020-09-02 23:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] PM / Domains: use device's next wakeup to determine domain idle state Lina Iyer
2020-09-08 12:14 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Better domain idle from device wakeup patterns Ulf Hansson
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