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[PATCH] arm64: dts: Add idle-states for Juno

From: Punit Agrawal <hidden>
Date: 2015-12-07 16:59:10

Lorenzo Pieralisi [off-list ref] writes:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 05:45:10PM +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
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Lorenzo Pieralisi [off-list ref] writes:
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 02:12:31PM +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
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On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 14:22 +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
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"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" [off-list ref] writes:
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From: Jon Medhurst <redacted>

Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <redacted>
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread.

Following the discussion on this thread, even though certain concerns
were raised, there wasn't any objection to $SUBJECT being merged.

I don't see this patch in any tree; perhaps it's slipped through the
cracks.
It did slip through the cracks. Lorenzo's last comment was "I am fine
with enabling the idle states, I need to review and test the idle states
DT data in the patch first though." and I didn't chase things up.

The patch will need refreshing to add idle for Juno r1. Which will then
probably resurrect the discussion about where the numbers come from for
residency times, and are the same ones for r0 valid on r1 (and r2?).

In an effort to forestall that I would say: does anyone actually care if
the values are optimal? Juno is a reference platform and powered off
mains, so tuning for the optimum power consumption is pretty pointless.
But because it _is_ used as a reference by people it should at least
have these features enabled, to serve as an example, and for test
coverage.
I agree with you here, let me check the entry/exit latencies again
to make sure they are reasonably set-up, it is 4.5 material anyway.
Hi Lorenzo,

Have you had a chance to sanity check the values we've got here? I
didn't want to miss this merge window if possible.
Yes and they need updating. This data is really really FW dependent,
that's the reason why I still think that these values should be provided
by FW and not shoved into the kernel. Anyway, here we go (I assume the
worst case and that's the only safe option I can see):

- the entry-latency should be set to 300us for _both_ idle states
- the exit-latency should be set to 1.2ms for _both_ idle states

The min-residency values looks reasonable, a tad optimistic (but again
that's workload and FW dependent so either we settle for the worst
possible case or we do not merge this at all).

With the changes above:

Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <redacted>
Tixy,

Could you please refresh this patch with the changes suggested by
Lorenzo? We might still be able to get it in for 4.4.

Thanks,
Punit

ps: Apologies if I've missed a new posting with these changes.
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