>>-----Original Message----- >>From: Cousson, Benoit >>Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 3:43 PM >>To: Gopinath, Thara >>Cc: Kevin Hilman; Paul Walmsley; linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; Sripathy, >>Vishwanath; Sawant, Anand >>Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] OMAP: Introduce device specific set rate and get >>rate in device opp structures. >> >>Hi Thara, >> >>On 9/17/2010 4:55 PM, Gopinath, Thara wrote: >>> >>>>> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khil...@deeprootsystems.com] >>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:58 PM >>>>> >>>>> "Gopinath, Thara"<th...@ti.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>>>>> From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khil...@deeprootsystems.com] >>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 5:12 AM >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thara Gopinath<th...@ti.com> writes: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This patch extends the device opp structure to contain >>>>>>>>> pointers to scale the operating rate of the >>>>>>>>> device and to retrieve the operating rate of the device. >>>>>>>>> This patch also adds the three new APIs in the opp layer >>>>>>>>> namely opp_set_rate that can be called to set a new operating >>>>>>>>> rate for a device, opp_get_rate that can be called to retrieve >>>>>>>>> the operating frequency for a device and opp_populate_rate_fns >>>>>>>>> to populte the device specific set_rate and get_rate API's. >>>>>>>>> The opp_set_rate and opp_get_rate does some routine error >>>>>>>>> checks and finally calls into the device specific set_rate >>>>>>>>> and get_rate APIs populated through opp_populate_rate_fns. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath<th...@ti.com> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> As I think about this more, I'm not sure the OPP layer is the right >>>>>>>> layer for the get/set rate functions. The OPP layer is currently just >>>>>>>> the data store for OPP data. To me, these set/get functions are better >>>>>>>> associated directly with an omap_device instead of an OPP. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For instance, the new OPP APIs are a bit confusing in terms of OPPs. >>>>>>>> e.g: opp_get_rate(). What is the "rate" of an OPP, and what's the >>>>>>>> difference with opp_get_freq()? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What's really happening is the rate is being changed for a device, and >>>>>>>> the need for specific hooks are at the device level, not the OPP >>level. >>>>>>>> For example, this current approach would not scale if you needed >>>>>>>> multiple devices in the same domain that each needed custom >>>>>>>> set_rate/get_rate hooks. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So instead, what about adding custom hooks at the omap_device level? >>>>>>>> They could be registered at omap_device_build() time in the device >>>>>>>> specific code. >>>>>> >>>>>> This is exactly what I had in my mind when I started implementing this. >>>>>> But then Paul said hwmod or omap_device is not the place to keep it. >>>>> >>>>> IIRC, Paul's concern was that *hwmod* was not the right place for this >>>>> (and I agree.) However, I think omap_device is the right place for >>>>> this. >>>>> >>>>> Paul? >>>>> >>>>>> Also I do not want the set rate get rate APIs for devices that require >>>>>> changes dividers in the PRCM clock module to be spread out in the >>>>>> system. Makes it very very difficult to debug. If we agree to add the >>>>>> set_rate and get_rate in the omap_device structure, I would like to >>>>>> have one more API in the omap_device layer to register these APIs >>>>>> device wise. Thus we can keep these set rate and get rate APIs in one >>>>>> single file. >>>>> >>>>> Agreed. And those functions should be in the respective >>>>> device-specific file, where the omap_device_build() etc are done for >>>>> that device. >>> >>> Hello Kevin, >>> >>> I basically agree with all your other suggestions except this. I do not >>> think device files are the correct place for this. For starters definitely >>mpu, >>> l3 and iva devices are not built from any device file. I do not like the >>idea >>> of device set rate APIs spread across different files. >> >>I don't not understand the reason? >>If we need to add specific device function for mpu, l3, or iva, we can >>easily add a file to contain that. >>BTW, thanks to work done by Santosh and Felipe we will probably soon >>introduce a l3 driver that will allow to handle interconnect errors. We >>will thus have a real device for l3 as well. >> >>A device set_rate is clearly device specific. If a device will have to >>play with its own internal dividers along with PRCM dividers, that code >>still belong to the device. >> >>I do not see the need nor the advantage to centralize that? You will >>end-up with a huge file that every driver owners will have to hack in >>order to add set_rate support for their device. >> >>At device build time, IP with set_rate support will just add non-null >>parameters to the omap_device_build(), et voila. >> >>For the debug point of view, you can just add a new sysfs entry for >>scalable devices that will allow you to track scalable device vs regular >>ones.
Hello Benoit/Kevin, Most of the devices need not scale any internal dividers. For devices that need to scale internal dividers, I agree that the set_rate and get_rate should come from the devices file. But for other devices that involve only PRCM dividers, I do not think they should be bothered with implementing these APIs and maintaining them. Regards Thara -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
