From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
To: Kendall Willis <k-willis@ti.com>
Cc: Scaria Kochidanadu <s-kochidanadu@ti.com>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
Tero Kristo <kristo@kernel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>, <a-kaur@ti.com>,
<s-tripathi1@ti.com>, <vishalm@ti.com>,
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
<devicetree@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am625: add standby cpu idle state
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:24:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260911192451.joeoap4fov5uds2u@decrease> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260911160257.xgq3xe76iijq2bxw@uda0506412>
On 11:02-20260911, Kendall Willis wrote:
> Hi Nishanth,
> On 06:22-20260909, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > On 16:00-20260907, Scaria Kochidanadu wrote:
> > >
> > > On 21/08/26 00:58, Kendall Willis wrote:
> > > > Allow the A53 cores to enter standby mode on the AM62x SoC.
> > > > The standby idle state enables the CPU cores to enter WFI through the
> > > > CPUIdle framework.
> >
> > A very basic question: Default Idle in kernel *is* WFI. So, what kind of
> > savings are we seeing by explicitly enabling a cpuidle state that goes
> > to WFI and more importantly why?
> >
>
> There is no additional power savings from the added cpuidle state.
> Adding the cpuidle state allows users to use cpuidle to see see stats
> about WFI from userspace.
If you mean how many times the processor hit WFI? mpstat -P ALL 1 ?
cat /proc/uptime (second field)?
Will drop the series for want of better justification to carry these
patches.
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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-20 19:28 [PATCH 0/3] arm64: dts: ti: add standby cpu idle state to AM62 SoCs Kendall Willis
2026-08-20 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am625: add standby cpu idle state Kendall Willis
2026-09-07 10:30 ` Scaria Kochidanadu
2026-09-09 11:22 ` Nishanth Menon
2026-09-11 16:02 ` Kendall Willis
2026-09-11 19:24 ` Nishanth Menon [this message]
2026-08-20 19:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62a7: " Kendall Willis
2026-08-20 19:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: dts: ti: k3-am62p5: " Kendall Willis
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