Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI/ASPM: add sysfs attribute for controlling ASPM

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:48 PM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:51:09PM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> >
> > May be we're digressing now, but I'd like to point out that there is
> > atleast one more file in ASPM that potentially violates the "1 value
> > per file" rule:
> >
> > rajatja@rajat2:/sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters$ cat policy
> > [default] performance powersave powersupersave
> > rajatja@rajat2:/sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters$
> >
> > ... although I would argue in this case that it makes it much clear
> > what are the allowable values to write, and which is the current
> > selected one.
>
> Huh, that's a good point.  That "policy" file is a little problematic
> for several reasons, one being the config options
> (CONFIG_PCIEASPM_PERFORMANCE, CONFIG_PCIEASPM_POWERSAVE, etc) that
> lock a distro into some default choice.
>
> Maybe there's something we can do there, although there's legacy use
> to consider (there are a zillion web pages that document
> pcie_aspm/parameters/policy as a way to fix things), and it's
> certainly beyond the scope of *this* series.

Agreed!

>
> Bjorn



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