From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Maulik Shah <mkshah@codeaurora.org>
Cc: swboyd@chromium.org, agross@kernel.org, david.brown@linaro.org,
Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org,
evgreen@chromium.org, dianders@chromium.org,
rnayak@codeaurora.org, ilina@codeaurora.org,
lsrao@codeaurora.org, ulf.hansson@linaro.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] drivers: firmware: psci: Add hierarchical domain idle states converter
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:06:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200205140603.GB38466@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ff7c82d-4204-a339-4070-0154ab4515f1@codeaurora.org>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 05:53:00PM +0530, Maulik Shah wrote:
>
> On 2/4/2020 8:51 PM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 10:22:42AM +0530, Maulik Shah wrote:
> > > On 2/3/2020 10:38 PM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:05:38PM +0530, Maulik Shah wrote:
> > > > > From: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> > > > >
> > > > > If the hierarchical CPU topology is used, but the OS initiated mode isn't
> > > > > supported, we need to rely solely on the regular cpuidle framework to
> > > > > manage the idle state selection, rather than using genpd and its
> > > > > governor.
> > > > >
> > > > > For this reason, introduce a new PSCI DT helper function,
> > > > > psci_dt_pm_domains_parse_states(), which parses and converts the
> > > > > hierarchically described domain idle states from DT, into regular flattened
> > > > > cpuidle states. The converted states are added to the existing cpuidle
> > > > > driver's array of idle states, which make them available for cpuidle.
> > > > >
> > > > And what's the main motivation for this if OSI is not supported in the
> > > > firmware ?
> > > Hi Sudeep,
> > >
> > > Main motivation is to do last-man activities before the CPU cluster can
> > > enter a deep idle state.
> > >
> > Details on those last-man activities will help the discussion. Basically
> > I am wondering what they are and why they need to done in OSPM ?
>
> Hi Sudeep,
>
> there are cases like,
>
> Last cpu going to deepest idle mode need to lower various resoruce
> requirements (for eg DDR freq).
>
In PC mode, only PSCI implementation knows the last man and there shouldn't
be any notion of it in OS. If you need it, you may need OSI. You are still
mixing up the things. NACK for any such approach, sorry.
--
Regards,
Sudeep
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-05 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-03 13:35 [PATCH v3 0/7] Add RSC power domain support Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] drivers: qcom: rpmh: fix macro to accept NULL argument Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] drivers: qcom: rpmh: remove rpmh_flush export Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] dt-bindings: soc: qcom: Add RSC power domain specifier Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] drivers: qcom: rpmh-rsc: Add RSC power domain support Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] drivers: firmware: psci: Add hierarchical domain idle states converter Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 17:08 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-04 4:52 ` Maulik Shah
2020-02-04 15:21 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-05 12:23 ` Maulik Shah
2020-02-05 14:06 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2020-02-05 15:55 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-05 16:18 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-06 8:45 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-06 20:45 ` Lina Iyer
2020-02-07 11:20 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-07 12:32 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-07 14:48 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-02-07 15:52 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-07 16:15 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-08 10:25 ` Ulf Hansson
2020-02-10 10:31 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-07 16:05 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-06 21:11 ` Bjorn Andersson
2020-02-07 11:25 ` Sudeep Holla
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Add cpuidle low power states Maulik Shah
2020-02-04 23:15 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2020-02-05 12:07 ` Maulik Shah
2020-02-03 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7180: Convert to the hierarchical CPU topology layout Maulik Shah
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