[v4,0/2] Better domain idle from device wakeup patterns

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Lina Iyer Oct. 20, 2020, 6:04 p.m. UTC

Changes since v3 [3]:
- Move the next_wakeup info of the device deeper into the device's
  domain data. This should avoid overhead for devices that do not have a
  predictable wakeup pattern. 

Changes since v2:
- Fix unwanted change

Changes since v1 [2]:
- Update documentation and commit text
- Remove check for runtime PM when setting next_event
- Fix kernel-test robot reported issue

Changes since RFC [1]:
- Organized the code to make it cleaner
- Fixed some issues with idle state determination
- Add documentation and update commit text

Hello,

I was looking for an option to do better power management for some
domains where the devices enter runtime PM in a predictable fashion. For
example a display device that sends a vsync interrupt every 16 ms for a
60 Hz panel. These interrupts are not timer interrupts but tend to
interrupt periodically to service the workflow and the devices and
domains may go back to idle soon after. Two domains are affected by this
- the device's PM domain and the CPU PM domain.

As a first step, I am looking to solve for the device's PM domain idle
state (and hopefully solve for the CPU PM domains subsequently). The PM
domain could have multiple idle states and/or the enter/exit latencies
could be high. In either case, it may not always be beneficial to power
off the domain, only to turn it back on before satisfying the idle state
residency. When the wakeup is known for the device, we could use that to
determine the worthiness of entering a domain idle state. Only the
device can tell us when the future event would be and that could change
as the usecase changes. Like, when the panel refresh rate increases to
120 Hz. If this information was made available to runtime PM, we could
use that in the domain governor to determine a suitable idle state. This
is the idea behind these patches.

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.

Thanks,
Lina

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/[e-mail]/T/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/[e-mail]/T/#u
[3]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/[e-mail]/

Lina Iyer (2):
  PM / domains: inform PM domain of a device's next wakeup
  PM / Domains: use device's next wakeup to determine domain idle state

 drivers/base/power/domain.c          | 36 ++++++++++++
 drivers/base/power/domain_governor.c | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/pm_domain.h            |  9 +++
 3 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)