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From: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
To: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Henroid, Andrew D" <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of i7300_idle based on review comments
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:51:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022235103.GA31369@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081022233451.GA28775@linux-os.sc.intel.com>



Cleanup of i7300 idle driver based on review comments from Randy Dunlap,
Andi Kleen and Len Brown.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>

---
 drivers/idle/Kconfig      |   11 ++++++-----
 drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Index: linux-acpi-2.6/drivers/idle/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-acpi-2.6.orig/drivers/idle/Kconfig	2008-10-22 11:43:08.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-acpi-2.6/drivers/idle/Kconfig	2008-10-22 11:43:37.000000000 -0700
@@ -5,12 +5,13 @@ config I7300_IDLE_IOAT_CHANNEL
 	bool
 
 config I7300_IDLE
-	tristate "Intel chipset idle power saving driver"
+	tristate "Intel chipset idle memory power saving driver"
 	select I7300_IDLE_IOAT_CHANNEL
-	depends on X86_64
+	depends on X86_64 && EXPERIMENTAL
 	help
-	  Enable idle power savings with certain Intel server chipsets.
-	  The chipset must have I/O AT support, such as the Intel 7300.
-	  The power savings depends on the type and quantity of DRAM devices.
+	  Enable memory power savings when idle with certain Intel server
+	  chipsets. The chipset must have I/O AT support, such as the
+	  Intel 7300. The power savings depends on the type and quantity of
+	  DRAM devices.
 
 endmenu
Index: linux-acpi-2.6/drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c
===================================================================
--- linux-acpi-2.6.orig/drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c	2008-10-22 11:43:08.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-acpi-2.6/drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c	2008-10-22 11:43:37.000000000 -0700
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 #define I7300_IDLE_DRIVER_VERSION	"1.55"
 #define I7300_PRINT			"i7300_idle:"
 
+#define MAX_STOP_RETRIES	10
+
 static int debug;
 module_param_named(debug, debug, uint, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Enable debug printks in this driver");
@@ -47,12 +49,12 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Enable debug pr
  *  0 = No throttling
  *  1 = Throttle when > 4 activations per eval window (Maximum throttling)
  *  2 = Throttle when > 8 activations
- *  168 = Throttle when > 168 activations (Minimum throttling)
+ *  168 = Throttle when > 672 activations (Minimum throttling)
  */
-#define MAX_THRTLWLIMIT		168
-static uint i7300_idle_thrtlowlm = 1;
-module_param_named(thrtlwlimit, i7300_idle_thrtlowlm, uint, 0644);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(thrtlwlimit,
+#define MAX_THROTTLE_LOW_LIMIT		168
+static uint throttle_low_limit = 1;
+module_param_named(throttle_low_limit, throttle_low_limit, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(throttle_low_limit,
 		"Value for THRTLOWLM activation field "
 		"(0 = disable throttle, 1 = Max throttle, 168 = Min throttle)");
 
@@ -111,9 +113,9 @@ static int i7300_idle_ioat_start(void)
 static void i7300_idle_ioat_stop(void)
 {
 	int i;
-	u8 sts;
+	u64 sts;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < MAX_STOP_RETRIES; i++) {
 		writeb(IOAT_CHANCMD_RESET,
 			ioat_chanbase + IOAT1_CHANCMD_OFFSET);
 
@@ -127,9 +129,10 @@ static void i7300_idle_ioat_stop(void)
 
 	}
 
-	if (i == 5)
-		dprintk("failed to suspend+reset I/O AT after 5 retries\n");
-
+	if (i == MAX_STOP_RETRIES) {
+		dprintk("failed to stop I/O AT after %d retries\n",
+			MAX_STOP_RETRIES);
+	}
 }
 
 /* Test I/O AT by copying 1024 byte from 2k to 1k */
@@ -276,7 +279,7 @@ static void __exit i7300_idle_ioat_exit(
 	i7300_idle_ioat_stop();
 
 	/* Wait for a while for the channel to halt before releasing */
-	for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < MAX_STOP_RETRIES; i++) {
 		writeb(IOAT_CHANCMD_RESET,
 		       ioat_chanbase + IOAT1_CHANCMD_OFFSET);
 
@@ -390,9 +393,9 @@ static void i7300_idle_start(void)
 	new_ctl = i7300_idle_thrtctl_saved & ~DIMM_THRTCTL_THRMHUNT;
 	pci_write_config_byte(fbd_dev, DIMM_THRTCTL, new_ctl);
 
-	limit = i7300_idle_thrtlowlm;
-	if (unlikely(limit > MAX_THRTLWLIMIT))
-		limit = MAX_THRTLWLIMIT;
+	limit = throttle_low_limit;
+	if (unlikely(limit > MAX_THROTTLE_LOW_LIMIT))
+		limit = MAX_THROTTLE_LOW_LIMIT;
 
 	pci_write_config_byte(fbd_dev, DIMM_THRTLOW, limit);
 
@@ -441,7 +444,7 @@ static int i7300_idle_notifier(struct no
 	static ktime_t idle_begin_time;
 	static int time_init = 1;
 
-	if (!i7300_idle_thrtlowlm)
+	if (!throttle_low_limit)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(time_init)) {

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-11  6:35 ACPI patch queue for 2.6.28 Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35 ` [PATCH 01/85] ACPI: Add missing acpi.debug_layer Documentation hunk from Thomas Renninger Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 02/85] acpi: replace AE_BAD_ADDRESS exception code with AE_ERROR Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 03/85] ACPI: Get the device power state in the course of scanning device Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 04/85] ACPI: Attach the ACPI device to the ACPI handle as early as possible Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 05/85] ACPI: Add "acpi.power_nocheck=1" to disable power state check in power transition Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 06/85] ACPI: Add DMI check " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 07/85] ACPI : Load device driver according to the status of acpi device Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 08/85] ACPICA: Copy dynamically loaded tables to local buffer Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 09/85] ACPICA: Add check for invalid handle in acpi_get_object_info Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 10/85] ACPICA: Allow same ACPI table to be loaded/unloaded more than once Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 11/85] ACPICA: Fix wrong resource descriptor length for 64-bit build Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 12/85] ACPICA: Fix table compare code, length then data Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 13/85] ACPICA: Return status from global init function Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 14/85] ACPICA: Add function to dereference returned reference objects Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 15/85] ACPICA: Fix warning for 64-bit build Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 16/85] ACPICA: Cleanup macro definition file Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 17/85] ACPICA: Return method arg count from acpi_get_object_info Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 18/85] ACPICA: Update version to 20080701 Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 19/85] ACPICA: Add function to decode reference obj types to strings Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 20/85] ACPICA: Improve object conversion error messages Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 21/85] ACPICA: x2APIC support: changes for MADT and SRAT ACPI tables Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 22/85] ACPICA: Update version to 20080729 Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 23/85] ACPI: Clear WAK_STS on resume Len Brown
2008-10-13  9:01     ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 24/85] ACPI : Add the support for _TTS object Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 25/85] Introduce FW_BUG, FW_WARN and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugs Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 26/85] ACPI: cpufreq, processor: Detect old BIOS, not supporting CPU freq on a recent CPU Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 27/85] CPUFREQ: powernow-k8: Try to detect old BIOS, not supporting CPU freq on a recent AMD CPUs Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 28/85] ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 29/85] dock: fix eject request process (2.6.27-rc1 regression) Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 30/85] dock: add _LCK support Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 31/85] dock: add bay and battery hotplug support Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 32/85] ACPI: introduce notifier change to avoid duplicates Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 33/85] ACPI: fix hotplug race Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 34/85] libata: remove functions now handed by ACPI dock driver Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 35/85] dock: introduce .uevent for devices in dock, eg libata Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 36/85] bay: remove driver, all functions now handled by dock driver Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 37/85] dock: fix for ATA bay in a dock station Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 38/85] dock: add 'type' sysfs file Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:35   ` [PATCH 39/85] dock: Shaohua Li is new maintainer Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 40/85] ACPI suspend: Always use the 32-bit waking vector Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 41/85] panasonic-laptop: add Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver v0.94 Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 42/85] ACPI: EC: do transaction from interrupt context Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 43/85] ACPI: EC: Rename some variables Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 44/85] ACPICA: add preemption point after each opcode parse Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 45/85] ACPI Suspend: Enable ACPI during resume if SCI_EN is not set Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 46/85] ACPI: don't enable control method power button as wakeup device when Fixed Power button is used Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 47/85] acer-wmi: Add rfkill support for wireless and bluetooth Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 48/85] acer-wmi: Remove wireless and bluetooth sysfs entries Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 49/85] ACPI: WMI: Enable event methods when registering notifiers Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 50/85] ACPI: Change acpi_evaluate_integer to support 64-bit on 32-bit kernels Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 51/85] ACPI: fix FADT parsing Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 52/85] fujitsu-laptop: better handling of P8010 hotkey Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 53/85] i7300_idle driver v1.55 Len Brown
2008-10-11  8:33     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-15 22:32       ` Len Brown
2008-10-16 22:05       ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: allow module driver to register idle notifier Len Brown
2008-10-21  1:57         ` Len Brown
2008-10-21 11:49           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-16 22:08       ` [PATCH 2/2] i7300_idle driver v1.55 Len Brown
2008-10-20 17:32         ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-21 22:09           ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-10-21 22:15             ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-21 23:02               ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-10-21 16:47         ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-21 22:34           ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-10-22  7:19             ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-22 23:34               ` [PATCH] Disable ioat channel only on platforms where ile driver can load Venki Pallipadi
2008-10-22 23:51                 ` Venki Pallipadi [this message]
2008-10-24 17:03                   ` [PATCH] Cleanup of i7300_idle based on review comments Len Brown
2008-10-24 17:02                 ` [PATCH] Disable ioat channel only on platforms where ile driver can load Len Brown
     [not found]                 ` <f12847240810270941v68a1cf7aqfa7db14fceb61fe5@mail.gmail.com>
2008-10-28 16:30                   ` Sosnowski, Maciej
2008-10-22 23:40               ` [PATCH 2/2] i7300_idle driver v1.55 Venki Pallipadi
2008-10-23  1:11                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-23  4:59                   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-10-23 12:26                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-23 15:00                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-10-23 16:26                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 54/85] eeepc-laptop: Use standard interfaces Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 55/85] x86: remove magic number from ACPI sleep stack buffer Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 56/85] x86: trim " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 57/85] ACPI: acpi_driver_data could only be applied to acpi_device Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 58/85] ACPI: toshiba_acpi.c fix sparse signedness mismatch warnings Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 59/85] ACPI: catch calls of acpi_driver_data on pointer of wrong type Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 60/85] toshiba_acpi: depends on INPUT Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 61/85] PNP: fix debug formatting (cosmetic) Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 62/85] PNPACPI: use dev_printk when possible Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 63/85] PNP: convert the last few pnp_info() uses to printk() Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 64/85] PNP: use new vsprintf symbolic function pointer format Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 65/85] PNP: remove some uses of DEBUG ifdef Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 66/85] PNP: add CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES and pnp_dbg() Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 67/85] PNP: convert to using pnp_dbg() Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 68/85] PNP: remove old CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG option Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 69/85] ACPI: don't load acpi_cpufreq if acpi=off Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 70/85] ACPI: remove unused have_arch_parse_srat Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 71/85] acer-wmi: Remove private workqueue Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 72/85] Subject: ACPI dock: Use ACPI_EXCEPTION instead of printk(KERN_ERR Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 73/85] ACPI cm_sbs: Debug interface used for error message cleanup Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 74/85] ACPI memhotplug: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 75/85] ACPI processor: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 76/85] ACPI video: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 77/85] ACPI scan: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 78/85] ACPI fan: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 79/85] ACPI osl: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 80/85] ACPI thermal: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 81/85] ACPI system: " Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 82/85] ACPI: remove unused acpi_is_child_device() Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 83/85] ACPI: Enable EC device immediately after ACPI full initialization Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 84/85] delete drivers/acpi/bay.c Len Brown
2008-10-11  6:36   ` [PATCH 85/85] panasonic-laptop: fix build Len Brown

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