From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: cpuidle: Support asymmetric idle definition
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:27:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2129371.vqmlXSuh4K@aspire.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c00e3ed-693d-4ea7-7a9f-be158b7eb7c5@linaro.org>
On Thursday, June 22, 2017 02:25:19 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 12/06/2017 20:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, June 12, 2017 05:55:10 PM Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> >> Some hardware have clusters with different idle states. The current code does
> >> not support this and fails as it expects all the idle states to be identical.
> >>
> >> Because of this, the Mediatek mtk8173 had to create the same idle state for a
> >> big.Little system and now the Hisilicon 960 is facing the same situation.
> >>
> >> Solve this by simply assuming the multiple driver will be needed for all the
> >> platforms using the ARM generic cpuidle driver which makes sense because of the
> >> different topologies we can support with a single kernel for ARM32 or ARM64.
> >>
> >> Every CPU has its own driver, so every single CPU can specify in the DT the
> >> idle states.
> >>
> >> This simple approach allows to support the future dynamIQ system, current SMP
> >> and HMP.
> >>
> >> Tested on:
> >> - 96boards: Hikey 620
> >> - 96boards: Hikey 960
> >> - 96boards: dragonboard410c
> >> - Mediatek 8173
> >>
> >> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> >> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
> >> Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> >
> > There seems to have been quite some discussion regarding this one and I'm not
> > sure about the resolution of it.
> >
> > I'd feel more comfortable with an ACK or Reviewed-by from Sudeep or Lorenzo here.
>
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> just a gentle reminder, Sudeep acked the patch.
Yes, I'll get to it later today, most likely.
Thanks,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-22 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20170612155441.GE2261@mai>
2017-06-12 15:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpuidle: dt: Add missing 'of_node_put()' Daniel Lezcano
2017-06-12 15:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: cpuidle: Support asymmetric idle definition Daniel Lezcano
2017-06-12 18:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-06-12 19:17 ` Daniel Lezcano
2017-06-22 12:25 ` Daniel Lezcano
2017-06-22 14:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2017-06-13 9:46 ` Sudeep Holla
2017-06-12 16:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpuidle: dt: Add missing 'of_node_put()' Lorenzo Pieralisi
2017-06-12 18:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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