RE: [PATCH 01/04] OMAP3: PM: Disable PER DPLL idle before OFF, reduces OFF latency by 20ms

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kalle Jokiniemi [mailto:kalle.jokiniemi@xxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:56 PM
>To: Nayak, Rajendra
>Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Derrick, David; Woodruff, Richard
>Subject: RE: [PATCH 01/04] OMAP3: PM: Disable PER DPLL idle 
>before OFF, reduces OFF latency by 20ms
>
>On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:50 +0300, Nayak, Rajendra wrote:
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Kalle Jokiniemi [mailto:kalle.jokiniemi@xxxxxxxxx] 
>> >Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:17 PM
>> >To: Nayak, Rajendra
>> >Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Derrick, David; Woodruff, Richard
>> >Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/04] OMAP3: PM: Disable PER DPLL idle 
>> >before OFF, reduces OFF latency by 20ms
>> >
>> >Hi Rajendra,
>> >
>> >On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 14:52 +0300, Rajendra Nayak wrote:
>> >> If autoidle for DPLL4 is enabled in the stored scratchpad
>> >> value of CM_AUTOIDLE_PLL then there is an added delay by
>> >> the boot ROM when coming out of OFF mode.
>> >> The patch disables this bitfield in the stored scratchpad value.
>> >> 
>> >> This should significantly reduce CORE OFF latency and also
>> >> bring down the threshold for CORE OFF, making OFF affordable
>> >> even with smaller sleep times.
>> >
>> >I did some measurements on RX-51 with this patch, and it 
>seems it does
>> >not reduce latency, it increases it by few hundred us.
>> >
>> >Servicing an empty timer interrupt from off mode (measured from VDD1
>> >ramp up to start of VDD1 ramp down):
>> >
>> >with dpll4 patch : ~14100us
>> >without patch    : ~13600us
>> >
>> >I attached pictures of both situations.
>> >
>> >My kernel had only C7 state enabled.
>> >
>> >Have you measured the latency effects on SDP or some other board?
>> 
>> I haven't done the latency measurements on SDP yet, but 
>David had done it
>> sometime back, using a different codebase though.
>
>OK, I also used our internal code base. Though the PM functionality is
>pretty much the same as in l-o:pm branch.
>
>> 
>> Can you explain more on how you are measuring the latency 
>here, I am a bit
>> confused. This is supposed to bring down the OFF wakeup 
>latency, the sleep latency
>> remains the same.
>
>I'm doing a timer interrupt periodically. Servicing that timer 
>interrupt
>takes the same amount of time every time. What varies (with the patch)
>is the transition times from off to active and back to off.
>
>In the pictures the top graph shows current and bottom graph shows the
>VDD1 and VDD2 voltages. I zoomed from the pictures the interval from
>when VDD1 goes up, to the point when it starts to go down again.
>
>So I measured: wakeup latency + interrupt service + sleep latency.

Is the boot ROM different on the OMAP devices on nokia h/w or is it
the same as that on the SDP?

>
>- Kalle
>
>> 
>> >
>> >- Kalle
>> >
>> >
>> >> This patch however does not optimize the C state threshold for
>> >> CORE OFF states based on the new latency.
>> >> 
>> >> Signed-off-by: Rajendra Nayak <rnayak@xxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/control.c |    7 +++++++
>> >>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> >> 
>> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/control.c 
>> >b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/control.c
>> >> index c9407c0..a7159a9 100644
>> >> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/control.c
>> >> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/control.c
>> >> @@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ void omap3_save_scratchpad_contents(void)
>> >>  			cm_read_mod_reg(PLL_MOD, CM_CLKEN);
>> >>  	prcm_block_contents.cm_autoidle_pll =
>> >>  			cm_read_mod_reg(PLL_MOD, 
>> >OMAP3430_CM_AUTOIDLE_PLL);
>> >> +	/*
>> >> +	 * ROM restore takes 20mS longer if PER idle is enabled 
>> >before OFF.
>> >> +	 * Clear feature before sleep. The origional idle state is
>> >> +	 * restored by software as part of wake procedure.
>> >> +	 */
>> >> +	prcm_block_contents.cm_autoidle_pll &= 
>> >~OMAP3430_AUTO_PERIPH_DPLL_MASK;
>> >> +
>> >>  	prcm_block_contents.cm_clksel1_pll =
>> >>  			cm_read_mod_reg(PLL_MOD, 
>> >OMAP3430_CM_CLKSEL1_PLL);
>> >>  	prcm_block_contents.cm_clksel2_pll =
>> >
>
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