From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
To: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Cc: tiwai@suse.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ALSA: hda: Allow HDA to be runtime suspended when dGPU is not bound
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:35:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190905213509.GI103977@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828180128.1732-1-kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 02:01:28AM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> It's a common practice to let dGPU unbound and use PCI platform power
> management to disable its power through _OFF method of power resource,
> which is listed by _PR3.
> When the dGPU comes with an HDA function, the HDA won't be suspended if
> the dGPU is unbound, so the power resource can't be turned off.
I'm not involved in applying this patch, but from the peanut gallery:
- The above looks like it might be two paragraphs missing a blank
line between? Or maybe it's one paragraph that needs to be
rewrapped?
- I can't parse the first sentence. I guess "dGPU" and "HDA" are
hardware devices, but I don't know what "unbound" means. Is that
something to do with a driver being bound to the dGPU? Or is it
some connection between the dGPU and the HDA?
- "PCI platform power management" is still confusing -- I think we
either have "PCI power management" that uses the PCI PM Capability
(i.e., writing PCI_PM_CTRL as in pci_raw_set_power_state()) OR we
have "platform power management" that uses some other method,
typically ACPI. Since you refer to _OFF and _PR3, I guess you're
referring to platform power management here.
- "It's common practice to let dGPU unbound" -- does that refer to
some programming technique common in drivers, or some user-level
thing like unloading a driver, or ...? My guess is it probably
means "unbind the driver from the dGPU" but I still don't know
what makes it common practice.
This probably all makes perfect sense to the graphics cognoscenti, but
for the rest of us there are a lot of dots here that are not
connected.
> Commit 37a3a98ef601 ("ALSA: hda - Enable runtime PM only for
> discrete GPU") only allows HDA to be runtime-suspended once GPU is
> bound, to keep APU's HDA working.
>
> However, HDA on dGPU isn't that useful if dGPU is unbound. So let's
> relax the runtime suspend requirement for dGPU's HDA function, to save
> lots of power.
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840835
> Fixes: b516ea586d71 ("PCI: Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers”)
> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Change wording.
> - Rebase to Tiwai's branch.
>
> sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> index 91e71be42fa4..c3654d22795a 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> @@ -1284,7 +1284,11 @@ static void init_vga_switcheroo(struct azx *chip)
> dev_info(chip->card->dev,
> "Handle vga_switcheroo audio client\n");
> hda->use_vga_switcheroo = 1;
> - chip->bus.keep_power = 1; /* cleared in either gpu_bound op or codec probe */
> +
> + /* cleared in either gpu_bound op or codec probe, or when its
> + * root port has _PR3 (i.e. dGPU).
> + */
> + chip->bus.keep_power = !pci_pr3_present(p);
> chip->driver_caps |= AZX_DCAPS_PM_RUNTIME;
> pci_dev_put(p);
> }
> --
> 2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-05 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 13:47 [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Add a helper to check Power Resource Requirements _PR3 existence Kai-Heng Feng
2019-08-27 13:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: hda: Allow HDA to be runtime suspended when dGPU is not bound Kai-Heng Feng
2019-08-27 14:50 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2019-08-27 15:24 ` Takashi Iwai
2019-08-27 22:31 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-08-28 8:25 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2019-08-28 18:01 ` [PATCH v2 " Kai-Heng Feng
2019-09-05 21:35 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2019-09-17 9:36 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2019-09-18 12:42 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] ALSA: hda: Allow HDA to be runtime suspended when dGPU is not bound to a driver Kai-Heng Feng
2019-08-27 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] PCI: Add a helper to check Power Resource Requirements _PR3 existence Takashi Iwai
2019-08-27 16:58 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2019-08-27 22:13 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-08-27 22:39 ` Peter Wu
2019-09-09 11:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2019-09-20 11:23 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2019-09-20 13:26 ` Bjorn Helgaas
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20190905213509.GI103977@google.com \
--to=helgaas@kernel.org \
--cc=alsa-devel@alsa-project.org \
--cc=kai.heng.feng@canonical.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-pci@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tiwai@suse.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).