linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] interconnect: Add helpers for enabling/disabling a path

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Message-ID: <27bcb979-cf5c-4969-6c39-80061158effa@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 7 May 2020 15:09:22 +0300
From:   Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@...aro.org>
To:     Akash Asthana <akashast@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, evgreen@...omium.org,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] interconnect: Add helpers for enabling/disabling a path

On 5/4/20 11:57, Akash Asthana wrote:
> Hi Georgi,
> 
> On 4/28/2020 2:46 PM, Georgi Djakov wrote:
>> There is a repeated pattern in multiple drivers where they want to switch
>> the bandwidth between zero and some other value. This is happening often
>> in the suspend/resume callbacks. Let's add helper functions to enable and
>> disable the path, so that callers don't have to take care of remembering
>> the bandwidth values and handle this in the framework instead.
>>
>> With this patch the users can call icc_disable() and icc_enable() to lower
>> their bandwidth request to zero and then restore it back to it's previous
>> value.
> 
> Thanks for this patch.
> 
> Are you planning to add bulk versions of icc_enable/disable APIs?
> 

Yes, i have already a bunch of patches that add bulk versions for most
of the API functions. Will post them on the list.

Thanks,
Georgi