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From: bilhuang@nvidia.com (Bill Huang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC 1/1] clk: Add notifier support in clk_prepare_enable/clk_disable_unprepare
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:28:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363253287.3311.32.camel@bilhuang-vm1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130314092132.GE18519@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com>

On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 17:21 +0800, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 03:15:11AM +0100, Bill Huang wrote:
> 
> > I don't think deferring will work either, considering the usage of DVFS,
> > device voltage is tightly coupled with frequency, when clock rate is
> > about to increase, we have to boost voltage first and we can lower the
> > voltage after the clock rate has decreased. All the above sequence have
> > to be guaranteed or you might crash, so deferring not only make thing
> > complicated in controlling the order but also hurt performance.
> 
> But we could use notifiers in clk_prepare/clk_unprepare to set the voltage no?
> As clk_prepare/clk_unprepare have to be called before clk_enable or after
> clk_disable, the voltage can be raised to a safe level, before the clock
> becomes active.

Thanks Peter, actually I'm just about to propose my v2 RFC which add
notifier in clk_prepare/clk_unprepare.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Peter.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-12 12:37 [RFC 1/1] clk: Add notifier support in clk_prepare_enable/clk_disable_unprepare Bill Huang
2013-03-12 13:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-13  1:47   ` Bill Huang
2013-03-13  4:42     ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-13  5:08       ` Bill Huang
2013-03-13  5:24         ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-13  5:40           ` Bill Huang
2013-03-13 18:10             ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-14  2:15               ` Bill Huang
2013-03-14  9:21                 ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-14  9:28                   ` Bill Huang [this message]
2013-03-14 17:54                     ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-15  1:20                       ` Bill Huang
2013-03-15  5:22                         ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-15  5:48                           ` Bill Huang
2013-03-15  9:39                           ` Peter De Schrijver
2013-03-15 10:08                             ` Ulf Hansson
2013-03-15 12:06                               ` Bill Huang
2013-03-15 12:33                                 ` Ulf Hansson
2013-03-15 19:38                                   ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-16  1:54                                     ` Bill Huang
2013-03-18 10:36                                     ` Ulf Hansson
2013-03-21 22:28                                       ` Mike Turquette
2013-03-16  2:23                                   ` Bill Huang
2013-03-15 17:12                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-15 17:09             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-16  2:25               ` Bill Huang
2013-03-15 16:59       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-15 16:57     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-03-15 18:44       ` Nicolas Pitre

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