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Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling?

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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a particular ARM CPU design that is drawing quite a lot of
> current upon exit from WFI, and it does so in a way even before the
> first instruction out of WFI is executed. That means we cannot influence
> directly the exit from WFI other than by changing the state in which it
> would be previously entered because of this "dead" time during which the
> internal logic needs to ramp up back where it left.
>
> A naive approach to solving this problem because we have CPU frequency
> scaling available would be to do the following:
>
> - just before entering WFI, switch to a low frequency OPP
> - enter WFI
> - upon exit from WFI, ramp up the frequency back to e.g: highest OPP
>
> Some of the parts that I am not exactly clear on would be:
>
> - would that qualify as a cpuidle governor of some kind that ties in
> which cpufreq?
> - would using cpufreq_driver_fast_switch() be an appropriate API to use
> from outside

Generally, the idle driver is expected to manipulate OPPs as suitable
for it at the low level.

Thanks,
Rafael

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cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 01:00 +0200
  Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-07-20 01:20 +0200
    Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2017-07-20 09:20 +0200
      Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> - 2017-07-20 11:30 +0200
        Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 01:10 +0200
      Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2017-07-20 12:00 +0200
        Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-07-20 16:50 +0200
          Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 01:00 +0200
            Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> - 2017-07-21 02:20 +0200
              Re: cpuidle and cpufreq coupling? Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 02:40 +0200

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