netdev - Re: [PATCH] ath10k: disable cpuidle during downloading firmware.

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Date:   Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:31:07 +0200
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ath10k@...ts.infradead.org,
        Ikjoon Jang <ikjn@...omium.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: disable cpuidle during downloading firmware.

Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@...il.com> writes:

> On 06/11/2019, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Ikjoon Jang <ikjn@...omium.org> writes:
>>
>>> Downloading ath10k firmware needs a large number of IOs and
>>> cpuidle's miss predictions make it worse. In the worst case,
>>> resume time can be three times longer than the average on sdio.
>>>
>>> This patch disables cpuidle during firmware downloading by
>>> applying PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY in ath10k_download_fw().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ikjoon Jang <ikjn@...omium.org>
>>
>> On what hardware and firmware versions did you test this? I'll add that
>> to the commit log.
>
> I've tested this on QCA9880. No issues during firmware download.

Great, thanks for testing.

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