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From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
To: Scaria Kochidanadu <s-kochidanadu@ti.com>
Cc: Kendall Willis <k-willis@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: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 06:22:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909112211.2zckbx2omnrjhkwp@scarily> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38c8d72a-50e5-44e2-a196-fb6b9f7530b0@ti.com>

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?

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Nishanth Menon
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  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-09 11:23 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 [this message]
2026-09-11 16:02       ` Kendall Willis
2026-09-11 19:24         ` Nishanth Menon
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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