linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 24/30] drm/rockchip: Disable PSR on input events

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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:42:29 -0300
From:   Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>
To:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        architt@...eaurora.org, inki.dae@...sung.com,
        thierry.reding@...il.com, hjc@...k-chips.com,
        seanpaul@...omium.org, airlied@...ux.ie, tfiga@...omium.org,
        heiko@...ech.de
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        a.hajda@...sung.com, ykk@...k-chips.com, kernel@...labora.com,
        m.szyprowski@...sung.com, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        jy0922.shim@...sung.com, rydberg@...math.org, krzk@...nel.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, kgene@...nel.org,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, orjan.eide@....com,
        wxt@...k-chips.com, jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com,
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        kyungmin.park@...sung.com, Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com,
        kuankuan.y@...il.com, hshi@...omium.org,
        "Kristian H. Kristensen" <hoegsberg@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 24/30] drm/rockchip: Disable PSR on input events

On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 11:49 +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> From: "Kristian H. Kristensen" <hoegsberg@...gle.com>
> 
> To improve PSR exit latency, we speculatively start exiting when we
> receive input events. Occasionally, this may lead to false positives,
> but most of the time we get a head start on coming out of PSR.
> Depending
> on how userspace takes to produce a new frame in response to the
> event,
> this can completely hide the exit latency. In case of Chrome OS, we
> typically get the input notifier 50ms or more before the dirty_fb
> triggered exit.
> 

Why is this rockchip-specific? It sounds more like something
we'd want to integrate generically for drivers to leverage.

Regards,
Eze