On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 06:05:43PM -0400, Ashutosh Dixit wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16 2016 at 04:08:17 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > That's a good start, but leads to more questions. For example, it > > doesn't answer the obvious question of why the driver needs to > > enable/disable ASPM from interrupt context. > > For power saving reasons we keep ASPM L1 enabled, but implement a > heuristic to "quickly" disable ASPM L1 when we notice PCIe traffic (as > measured by the interrupt rate) starting up. If interrupt activity > ceases ASPM L1 is re-enabled. > > > Disabling ASPM should only require writing the device's Link Control > > register. The PCI core could probably provide an interface to do that > > in interrupt context. > > > > Enabling ASPM is not latency-critical and could probably be done from > > a work queue outside interrupt context, although conceptually there > > shouldn't be much required here either, and possibly the PCI core > > interface could be improved. > > That is true, to keep latencies low we need to disable ASPM from > interrupt context, but re-enabling ASPM is not latency critical. For endpoint devices, it should be theoretically possible to enable/disable ASPM very quickly, by touching only that device. We don't do that today because pcie/aspm.c does all sorts of buffoonery and path walking. I think that could be simplified, assuming we think this sort of intensive ASPM-management is desirable. > > It's possible the latency problem could be handled by some sort of > > quirk that overrides the acceptable latency. > > Correct, this is another issue that needs to be resolved. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
