Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754610Ab3COTiz (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:38:55 -0400 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:55507 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752164Ab3COTiy (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:38:54 -0400 Message-ID: <514378CB.1060605@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:38:51 -0600 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulf Hansson CC: Bill Huang , Peter De Schrijver , Russell King - ARM Linux , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "patches@linaro.org" , "linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] clk: Add notifier support in clk_prepare_enable/clk_disable_unprepare References: <1363151317.3311.9.camel@bilhuang-vm1> <51400D9D.9060305@wwwdotorg.org> <1363153204.3311.14.camel@bilhuang-vm1> <5140C12A.4060900@wwwdotorg.org> <1363227311.3311.30.camel@bilhuang-vm1> <20130314092132.GE18519@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> <1363253287.3311.32.camel@bilhuang-vm1> <51420EBB.7080503@wwwdotorg.org> <1363310454.3311.44.camel@bilhuang-vm1> <5142B027.4040403@wwwdotorg.org> <20130315093951.GV18519@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> <1363349206.5827.10.camel@bilhuang-vm1> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2751 Lines: 53 On 03/15/2013 06:33 AM, Ulf Hansson wrote: > On 15 March 2013 13:06, Bill Huang wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 18:08 +0800, Ulf Hansson wrote: ... >>> Some prerequisites; I think am in favor of using the clk API to >>> trigger DVFS changes and then I agree on that clk_prepare|unprepare >>> needs to be possible to track from a DVFS perspective. clk_set_rate is >>> not enough. >>> >>> So if we decide to do the above (using the clk API to trigger DVFS >>> changes), I believe we should discuss two possible solutions; >>> - clk notifiers or.. >>> - dvfs clock type. >>> >>> I am trying to make up my mind of what I think is the best solution. >>> Have you considered "dvfs clock type"? >>> I put some comments about this for "[PATCH 2/5] clk: notifier handler >>> for dynamic voltage scaling" recently as well. >>> >>> What could the advantages/disadvantages be between the two options? >> >> I personally prefer clk notifiers since that's easy and all the existing >> device drivers don't need to be modified, a new clock or API might be >> more thoroughly considered (and hence maybe more graceful) but that >> means we need more time to cook and many drivers need to plug into that >> API when it comes out, a lot of test/verification or maybe chaos >> follows, I'm not sure will that be a little overkill. > > I guess you did not fully got what I meant with "dvfs clock type". It > will not affect the clock API. But instead the dvfs is handled by > implementing a specific clk hw type. So the same thing is accomplished > as with clk notifiers, no changes should be needed to device drivers. > > The difference is only that no notifiers will be needed, and all the > dvfs stuff will be handled in the clk hw instead. It will mean that we > will bundle dvfs stuff into the clock drivers, instead of separating > the code outside the clock drivers. But, on the other hand no > notifiers will be needed. The advantage here is that I assume that a notifier would continually have to check whether the clock being modified was one that the DVFS notifier cared about. By integrating the CVFS logic into the clk_hw itself, it'll only ever get executed for clocks that really care about DVFS. Presumably, the code that implements the clk_hw could also use some common DVFS library as part of the implementation, and still share code. Or perhaps, what about putting DVFS "ops" into a clk_hw alongside any other existing ops, and having the clock core call them whenever appropriate? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/