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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:13:45 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To: Shreyas B Prabhu <shreyas@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@....edu>,
"Preeti U. Murthy" <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] powerpc/powernv: Support for fastsleep and winkle
On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 01:42:05 PM Shreyas B Prabhu wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> On Tuesday 30 September 2014 04:58 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, September 29, 2014 03:53:06 PM Shreyas B Prabhu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> Any updates on this patch series?
> >
> > I have a couple of patches from there in my tree it seems. Please have a look
> > at linux-pm.git/linux-next and please let me know if that's the case.
> >
>
> I checked linux-pm.git/linux-net (Last commit 067c17382165). None of the patches
> in this series are present in the tree.
OK, thanks for checking.
Would you mind resending it with any ACKs or Reviewed-by tags received so far?
> >> On Thursday 18 September 2014 08:41 AM, Shreyas B Prabhu wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In this patch series we use winkle for offlined cores. I successfully
> >>> tested the working of this with subcore functionality.
> >>>
> >>> Test scenario was as follows:
> >>> 1. Set SMT mode to 1, Set subores-per-core to 1
> >>> 2. Offline a core, in this case cpu 32 (sending it to winkle)
> >>> 3. Set subcores-per-core to 4
> >>> 4. Online the core
> >>> 5. Start a guest (Topology 1 core 2 threads) on a subcore, in this case
> >>> on cpu 36
> >>>
> >>> This works without any glitch.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Shreyas
> >>>
> >>> On Monday 25 August 2014 11:31 PM, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote:
> >>>> Fast sleep is an idle state, where the core and the L1 and L2
> >>>> caches are brought down to a threshold voltage. This also means that
> >>>> the communication between L2 and L3 caches have to be fenced. However
> >>>> the current P8 chips have a bug wherein this fencing between L2 and
> >>>> L3 caches get delayed by a cpu cycle. This can delay L3 response to
> >>>> the other cpus if they request for data during this time. Thus they
> >>>> would fetch the same data from the memory which could lead to data
> >>>> corruption if L3 cache is not flushed.
> >>>> Patch 4 adds support to work around this.
> >>>>
> >>>> 'Deep Winkle' is a deeper idle state where core and private L2 are powered
> >>>> off. While it offers higher power savings, it is at the cost of losing
> >>>> hypervisor register state and higher latency.
> >>>> Patch 5-9 adds support for winkle and uses it for offline cpus.
> >>>>
> >>>> Patch 1 - Moves parameters required discover idle states to a location
> >>>> common to both cpuidle driver and powernv core code
> >>>> Patch 2 - Populates idle state details from device tree
> >>>> Patch 3 - Enables cpus to run guest after waking up from fastsleep/winkle
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> >>>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> >>>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> >>>> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>
> >>>> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@....EDU>
> >>>> Cc: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>>> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>>> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
> >>>> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
> >>>> Cc: devicetree@...r.kernel.org
> >>>> Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
> >>>> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> >>>>
> >>>> Preeti U Murthy (2):
> >>>> cpuidle/powernv: Populate cpuidle state details by querying the
> >>>> device-tree
> >>>> powerpc/powernv/cpuidle: Add workaround to enable fastsleep
> >>>>
> >>>> Shreyas B. Prabhu (6):
> >>>> powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv: Enable CPUs to run guest after waking up from
> >>>> fast-sleep
> >>>> powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL call to save and restore
> >>>> powerpc: Adding macro for accessing Thread Switch Control Register
> >>>> powerpc/powernv: Add winkle infrastructure
> >>>> powerpc/powernv: Discover and enable winkle
> >>>> powerpc/powernv: Enter deepest supported idle state in offline
> >>>>
> >>>> Srivatsa S. Bhat (1):
> >>>> powerpc/powernv: Enable Offline CPUs to enter deep idle states
> >>>>
> >>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h | 4 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h | 10 ++
> >>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 3 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-opcode.h | 2 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 6 +-
> >>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 1 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S | 37 ++---
> >>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c | 30 ++++
> >>>> arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_power7.S | 83 +++++++++-
> >>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-wrappers.S | 2 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/powernv.h | 8 +
> >>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 217 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c | 13 +-
> >>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c | 15 ++
> >>>> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 40 ++++-
> >>>> 16 files changed, 439 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>
> >
>
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