linux-kernel - Re: power-off delay/hang due to commit 6d25be57 (mainline)

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Date:   Wed, 2 Dec 2020 19:31:21 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@....net>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        Erik Kaneda <erik.kaneda@...el.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:ACPI COMPONENT ARCHITECTURE (ACPICA)" <devel@...ica.org>
Subject: Re: power-off delay/hang due to commit 6d25be57 (mainline)

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 7:03 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<bigeasy@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> On 2020-10-26 18:20:59 [+0100], To Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > > Done as Bug 208877.
> > > > Rafael, do you have any suggestions?
> > >
> > > I've lost track of this sorry.
> > >
> > > I have ideas, let me get back to this next week.
> >
> > :)
>
> Rafael, any update? If you outline an idea or so then I may be able to
> form a patch out of it. Otherwise I have no idea how to fix this - other
> than telling the driver to not poll in smaller intervals than
> 30secs.

The idea, roughly speaking, is to limit the number of outstanding work
items in the queue (basically, if there's a notification occurring
before the previous one can be handled, there is no need to queue up
another work item for it).