These patches enable usb autosuspend for the qemu emulated HID devices.
This reduces the cpu load for idle guests with a hid device attached
because the linux kernel will suspend the usb bus then and qemu can stop
running a 1000 Hz to emulate the (active) UHCI controller.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Makefile.am | 6 ++++++
extras/qemu/99-qemu-usb.rules | 12 ++++++++++++
extras/qemu/qemu-usb-autosuspend | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 extras/qemu/99-qemu-usb.rules
create mode 100755 extras/qemu/qemu-usb-autosuspend
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 2e3fe39..c09b2a0 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ extras_v4l_id_v4l_id_LDADD = libudev/libudev-private.la
libexec_PROGRAMS += extras/v4l_id/v4l_id
dist_udevrules_DATA += extras/v4l_id/60-persistent-v4l.rules
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# qemu -- qemu/kvm guest tweaks
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+dist_udevrules_DATA += extras/qemu/99-qemu-usb.rules
+dist_libexec_SCRIPTS += extras/qemu/qemu-usb-autosuspend
+
if ENABLE_EXTRAS
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# conditional extras (need glib, libusb, libacl, ...)
diff --git a/extras/qemu/99-qemu-usb.rules b/extras/qemu/99-qemu-usb.rules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35f33e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extras/qemu/99-qemu-usb.rules
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#
+# Enable autosuspend for qemu emulated usb hid devices.
+#
+# Note that there are buggy qemu versions which advertise remote
+# wakeup support but don't actually implement it correctly. This
+# is the reason why we need a match for the serial number here.
+# The serial number "42" is used to tag the implementations where
+# remote wakeup is working.
+#
+ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{product}=="QEMU USB Mouse", ATTR{serial}=="42", RUN+="qemu-usb-autosuspend %p"
+ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{product}=="QEMU USB Tablet", ATTR{serial}=="42", RUN+="qemu-usb-autosuspend %p"
+ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{product}=="QEMU USB Keyboard", ATTR{serial}=="42", RUN+="qemu-usb-autosuspend %p"
diff --git a/extras/qemu/qemu-usb-autosuspend b/extras/qemu/qemu-usb-autosuspend
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..48761de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extras/qemu/qemu-usb-autosuspend
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+path="$1"
+if test -f "/sys${path}/power/control"; then
+ echo "auto" > "/sys${path}/power/control"
+elif test -f "/sys${path}/power/level"; then
+ echo "auto" > "/sys${path}/power/level"
+fi
--
1.7.1
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