Re: [PATCH 1/3] MMC / PM: Make it possible to use PM QoS latency constraints, v2

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On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> A runtime suspend of an MMC controller belonging to a power domain
> or, in a more complicated scenario, a runtime suspend of another
> device in the same power domain, may cause power to be removed from
> the entire domain.  In that case, the amount of time necessary to
> runtime-resume the MMC controller is often substantially greater
> than the time needed to enable its clock.  That may hurt performance
> in some situations, because user data may need to wait for the
> controller to become operational, so we should make it possible to
> prevent that from happening.
>
> For this reason, introduce a new sysfs attribute for MMC hosts,
> pm_latency_limit_ms, allowing user space to specify the upper bound
> of the time necessary to bring the (runtime-suspended) host up after
> the resume of it has been requested.  However, make that attribute
> appear ony for the hosts whose drivers declare support for PM QoS by
> populating the pm_qos member of struct mmc_host before registering
> the host.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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