Re: [PATCH] ACPI / sleep: EC-based wakeup from suspend-to-idle on recent systems

[Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 17:03 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 03:50:33 PM Tom Lanyon wrote:
> > 
> > On 23 June 2017 at 12:40, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation
> > .org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki
> > > .net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Some recent Dell laptops, including the XPS13 model numbers
> > > > 9360 and
> > > > 9365, cannot be woken up from suspend-to-idle by pressing the
> > > > power
> > > > button which is unexpected and makes that feature less usable
> > > > on
> > > > those systems.  [ details removed ]
> > > 
> > > This looks much more reasonable and more likely to work on future
> > > machines too.
> > > 
> > > Of course, who knows what broken machines it will cause problems
> > > on,
> > > but it sounds like the code now does what it's supposed to and
> > > what
> > > Win10 does, so maybe it JustWorks(tm). Hah.
> > 
> > Rafael - thanks for your efforts on this.
> 
> You're welcome!
> 
> > 
> > I wanted to provide some feedback from some quick and naive tests
> > on
> > an XPS 13 9365 in case it was useful, as it seems like there's
> > still
> > some way to go before matching Win10's behaviour.
> > 
> >     Linux idling w/ screen ON => 17% battery drain per hour.
> >     Linux idling w/ screen OFF => 12% battery drain per hour.
> >     Linux during s2idle => 6% battery drain per hour.
> >     Win10 during sleep => 1% battery drain per hour.
> > 
> > where Linux = 4.12-rc6 + the latest patch from your acpi-pm-test
> > branch.
> > 
> > So whilst s2idle halves the battery drain compared to the machine
> > staying powered on, it's still significantly more draining than
> > Win10.
> 
> Thanks for the data.
> 
> > 
> > Let me know if there's any more useful analysis I can do.
> 
> I would carry out s2idle under turbostat to see how much PC10
> residency is
> there while suspended.  That may be a significant factor.
> 
> Most likely there is a device preventing the SoC from reaching its
> deepest
> low-power states under Linux on your system and it needs to be
> identified
> and dealt with.
Also make sure that you have no FW loading error for i915.
#dmesg | grep i915
It will display that Guc FW was loaded etc..
The latest FW can be downloaded from
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/firmware

If you don't see PC10 residency, we can try something more.

Thanks,
Srinivas


> 
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>