From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Jeff Wu <jeff.wu@amd.com>,
Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 07/10] block: add a new interface to block events
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 06:50:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121119145009.GA15971@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1211182058450.10879-100000@netrider.rowland.org>
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 09:07:22PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Hey...
Hey, again. :P
> > So, at least for SATA, I think what autopm can do is...
> >
> > * Trigger zpodd if possible.
> >
> > * Trigger suspend iff polling isn't happening on the device.
>
> That sums it up nicely. Of course, the PM core is unaware of details
> such as media polling. What we can do is have the SATA runtime-idle
> method return -EBUSY if the device isn't a ZPODD and if polling is
> enabled. Unfortunately I don't think there's any way currently to
> trigger autopm when the user turns off polling. Maybe something could
> be added to the appropriate sysfs handler.
Given that genhd event polling and PM are likely to interact with each
other, I think it would be a good idea to implement a proper way for
the two to communicate. Dunno what it should be tho. The tricky part
would be mapping the block device to the underlying hardware one.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-19 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-09 6:51 [PATCH v9 00/10] ZPODD Patches Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 01/10] scsi: sr: support runtime pm Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 02/10] ata: zpodd: Add CONFIG_SATA_ZPODD Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 03/10] ata: zpodd: identify and init ZPODD devices Aaron Lu
2012-11-12 18:53 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-14 1:32 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-18 14:38 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-19 2:15 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 04/10] libata: acpi: move acpi notification code to zpodd Aaron Lu
2012-11-12 18:55 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-14 1:36 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 05/10] libata: separate ATAPI code Aaron Lu
2012-11-12 18:57 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-13 12:49 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-18 15:01 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-19 2:21 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-19 14:51 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 06/10] ata: zpodd: check zero power ready status Aaron Lu
2012-11-12 19:13 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-13 13:20 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-14 2:18 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-18 15:00 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-19 3:09 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-19 14:56 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-19 15:06 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-26 0:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-26 0:45 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 5:03 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-26 5:09 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 7:32 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-26 8:27 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 13:17 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-26 16:21 ` Alan Stern
2012-11-26 19:15 ` James Bottomley
2012-11-27 1:41 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-28 0:51 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-28 1:39 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-28 2:24 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-28 8:56 ` James Bottomley
2012-12-03 8:13 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-03 8:25 ` James Bottomley
2012-12-03 8:59 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-03 16:23 ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-03 18:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-12-04 5:04 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-04 12:11 ` James Bottomley
2012-12-07 6:13 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-10 3:26 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-11 5:10 ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-18 8:30 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-20 6:07 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-25 17:17 ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-26 1:42 ` Aaron Lu
2012-12-28 21:16 ` Tejun Heo
2013-01-04 1:04 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-30 8:55 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-30 11:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-20 6:00 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-20 8:59 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 0:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-26 0:48 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 1:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-26 1:05 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 1:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-26 1:09 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 1:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-11-26 1:22 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-26 1:17 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:51 ` [PATCH v9 07/10] block: add a new interface to block events Aaron Lu
2012-11-12 19:14 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-12 19:18 ` Alan Stern
2012-11-12 19:21 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-12 19:34 ` Alan Stern
2012-11-18 15:05 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-18 17:41 ` Alan Stern
2012-11-18 21:56 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-18 21:58 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-18 23:28 ` Alan Stern
2012-11-18 23:35 ` Tejun Heo
2012-11-19 2:07 ` Alan Stern
2012-11-19 3:21 ` Aaron Lu
2012-11-19 14:50 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-11-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v9 08/10] scsi: sr: support (un)block events Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v9 09/10] ata: zpodd: handle power transition of ODD Aaron Lu
2012-11-09 6:52 ` [PATCH v9 10/10] ata: expose pm qos flags to user space for ata device Aaron Lu
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