linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Avoid to go into d3cold if device can't use npss.

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Date:   Wed, 26 May 2021 16:28:09 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
        Koba Ko <koba.ko@...onical.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        linux-nvme <linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Henrik Juul Hansen <hjhansen2020@...il.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-pci: Avoid to go into d3cold if device can't use
 npss.

On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:21:59PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> To be fair, resuming the NVMe from D3hot is much slower than keep it
> at D0, which gives us a faster s2idle resume time. And now AMD also
> requires s2idle on their latest laptops.

We'd much prefer to use it, but due to the broken platforms we can't
unfortunately.

> And it's more like NVMe controllers don't respect PCI D3hot.

What do you mean with that?

> Because the NVMe continues to work after s2idle and the symbol is
> rather subtle, so I suspect this is not platform or vendor specific.
> Is it possible to disable DMA for HMB NVMe on suspend?

Not in shipping products.  The NVMe technical working group is working
on a way to do that, but it will take a while until that shows up in
products.