On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:15:05PM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 November 2017 04:20 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 09:52:48AM +0530, Vidya Sagar wrote:
> >>Programs T_cmrt (Commmon Mode Restore Time) and T_pwr_on (Power On)
> >>values to get them reflected in ASPM-L1 Sub-States capability registers
> >>Also adjusts internal counter values according to 19.2 MHz clk_m value
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar <vidyas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> >>+u32 pcie_aspm_get_ltr_l_1_2_threshold(void)
> >>+{
> >>+ /* LTR L1.2 Threshold = 55us for all ports */
> >>+ return ((0x37 << 16) | (0x02 << 29));
>
> >I know you've already worked through this, but let me think out loud
> >to try to figure this out myself.
> >
> >ASPM defines Link power states L0, L0s, and L1. L1 PM Substates
> >extend that by adding L1.1 and L1.2. L1.2 presumably uses less power
> >and has a longer exit delay than L1.1 [sec 5.5].
> >
> >Ports that support L1.2 must support Latency Tolerance Reporting (LTR)
> >[sec 6.18]. When LTR is enabled, a device periodically sends LTR
> >messages.
> >
> >When ASPM puts a Link into L1, it chooses either L1.1 or L1.2 based on
> >LTR_L1.2_THRESHOLD and recent LTR messages. If there's no LTR
> >information it looks like LTR_L1.2_THRESHOLD doesn't matter and it
> >always chooses L1.2 [sec 5.5.1].
> >
> >I don't see anything that writes PCI_EXP_DEVCTL2_LTR_EN, so I don't
> >think Linux ever enables LTR. Some BIOSes apparently enable it
> >(Google for "LTR enabled").
>
> I think this needs to be done in aspm.c file. i.e. whenever
> sub-system enables L1.2, it should enable
> LTR_EN also.
That probably makes sense.
> >1) It seems like the LTR_L1.2_THRESHOLD value should be computed based
> > on the latency requirements of downstream devices. How did you
> > come up with 55us?
>
> This is given by Tegra hardware folks.
I do not understand why this value should be dependent on the host
bridge. Can your hardware folks give more insight into this and how
they derived 55us?
I'm repeating myself, but the threshold (in combination with LTR
information) affects whether we enter L1.1 or L1.2. If I understand
correctly, this is all about the downstream devices and not at all
about the host bridge.
> ...
> >3) We must support kernels with multiple host bridge drivers compiled
> > in, and the weak/strong symbol approach doesn't support using the
> > correct version, e.g., if we merge this patch, every system
> > containing the tegra driver would use this function, even if the
> > hardware had a different host bridge. Also, if another driver
> > implemented its own version, we'd have duplicate symbols.
>
> Yes. Agree with this too.
> How about using quirks framework for this?
If my assumption that "the threshold should be based on (a) the
latency requirements of downstream devices and (b) perhaps some global
power vs performance tradeoff" is correct, this doesn't really fit
into any kind of quirks or static computation, including the current
LTR_L1_2_THRESHOLD_BITS.
What happens if you keep all the Tegra-specific parts of this series,
i.e., you program the T_cmrt, T_pwr_on, and CLKREQ values, and enable
advertising of ASPM L1 capability, but leave out the
pcie_aspm_get_ltr_l_1_2_threshold() parts? (BTW, I think you should
reorder the series so you fix up all the delay values *before* you
advertise ASPM L1.)
I expect that to be functionally equivalent, but it would change the
L1.1 vs L1.2 tradeoff, so it might have some performance impact,
depending on what the downstream devices are.
Bjorn
