[PATCH v2 0/3] i2c: Enable asynchronous suspend/resume

Rajat Jain
2021-10-25T21:35:37Z

(The only change in v2 is to add Jarkko's ack / tested-by)

PM Core allows buses and drivers to specify if they'd like their devices
to suspend/resume synchronously or asynchronously. When resuming:

1) SYNCHRONOUS DEVICES:
- All synchronous devices (system wide!) are resumed in a single thread,
serially i.e. one after the other. So their resume latencies add up,
and also, this results in unnecessary and unnatural waiting order.

In my current system (total resume time ~895ms) and this is the trend
on almost all chromebooks in the past 3-4 years (we carry patch3 in
our tree already, without which it would be even more worse):
https://rajatxjain.github.io/public_shared/resume_before_patches.html
As you can see I2C devices do not even begin to resume until 450ms,
waiting unnaturally for another device i915 to finish resuming:

I2C touchscreen device (resume latency = 374 ms) - asynchronous
-> (waiting on) I2C adapter resume (synchronous)
-> (waiting on) Designware resume (synchronous)
-> (waiting on) intel_backlight resume (synchronous)
-> (waiting on) its PARENT i915 resume (asynchronous resume
time = 376ms)
As you can see the two biggest resume routines are both run serially
after one another (even though they don't have any real dependency)
thus increasing the system critical resume path. If we can run them
concurrently, we can cut down the system resume time considerably.

2) ASYNCHRONOUS DEVICES:
- On the other hand, all asynchronous devices's resume routines are
scheduled so they can run in parallel with other asynchronous
routines. PM core still ensures for both async/sync devices that:
- All parent child relations are honored.
- Any device dependencies are honored. Device dependencies between
any 2 unrelated devices can be specified using device_link_add().
- Async resume devices are sychnronized at the end of each
suspend/resume phase, before moving onto next.

With these patches in place, the I2C devices can resume in parallel
with i915:
https://rajatxjain.github.io/public_shared/resume_after_patch.html

As far as I understand, the only reason we might not want a device to be
marked for asynchronous resume is if we suspect it cannot handle
concurrent resume with other devices, which does not look to be the
case.

This patchset marks the designware, the I2c adapters, and the i2c
clients for asynchronous suspend/resume. In case it helps to gain any
confidence, the patch 3 (for i2c clients) has been included and shipping
on all our chromebooks for the past 3+ years, and has not shown any
issues. The designware and i2c adapters should be easier.

Derek Basehore (1):
i2c: enable async suspend/resume on i2c client devices

Rajat Jain (2):
i2c: designware: Enable async suspend / resume of designware devices
i2c: enable async suspend/resume for i2c adapters

drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-platdrv.c | 2 ++
drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

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