On Wed, 21 Aug 2013, Ming Lei wrote:

> This patch introduces ehci_disable_event(), which is applied on
> IAA_WATCHDOG and START_UNLINK_INTR timeouts if the two corresponding
> events(IAA and intr URB submission) happened, so that we may avoid
> unnecessary CPU wakeup by canceling the timer.
> 
> One simple test indicates about 7~8 timer expirations/sec
> (20% ~ 30% of totoal timer expirations/sec) can be saved when one asix
> network NIC is connected to EHCI without network traffic(the device
> responds interrupt poll 7~8 times per second constantly for link status
> query).
> 
> Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c   |   12 +-----------
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c |    4 +++-
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-timer.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> index 73c7299..549da36 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> @@ -738,17 +738,7 @@ static irqreturn_t ehci_irq (struct usb_hcd *hcd)
>       if (status & STS_IAA) {
>  
>               /* Turn off the IAA watchdog */
> -             ehci->enabled_hrtimer_events &= ~BIT(EHCI_HRTIMER_IAA_WATCHDOG);
> -
> -             /*
> -              * Mild optimization: Allow another IAAD to reset the
> -              * hrtimer, if one occurs before the next expiration.
> -              * In theory we could always cancel the hrtimer, but
> -              * tests show that about half the time it will be reset
> -              * for some other event anyway.
> -              */
> -             if (ehci->next_hrtimer_event == EHCI_HRTIMER_IAA_WATCHDOG)
> -                     ++ehci->next_hrtimer_event;
> +             ehci_disable_event(ehci, EHCI_HRTIMER_IAA_WATCHDOG);
>  
>               /* guard against (alleged) silicon errata */
>               if (cmd & CMD_IAAD)
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c
> index 6631089..83be03f 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-sched.c
> @@ -610,9 +610,11 @@ static void cancel_unlink_wait_intr(struct ehci_hcd 
> *ehci, struct ehci_qh *qh)
>       list_del_init(&qh->unlink_node);
>  
>       /*
> -      * TODO: disable the event of EHCI_HRTIMER_START_UNLINK_INTR for
> +      * disable the event of EHCI_HRTIMER_START_UNLINK_INTR for
>        * avoiding unnecessary CPU wakeup
>        */
> +     if (list_empty(&ehci->intr_unlink_wait))
> +             ehci_disable_event(ehci, EHCI_HRTIMER_START_UNLINK_INTR);
>  }
>  
>  static void start_unlink_intr(struct ehci_hcd *ehci, struct ehci_qh *qh)
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-timer.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-timer.c
> index 424ac5d..983d063 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-timer.c
> @@ -99,6 +99,22 @@ static void ehci_enable_event(struct ehci_hcd *ehci, 
> unsigned event,
>       }
>  }
>  
> +/* Warning: don't call this function from hrtimer handler context */
> +static void ehci_disable_event(struct ehci_hcd *ehci, unsigned event)
> +{
> +     ehci->enabled_hrtimer_events &= ~(1 << event);
> +
> +     if (!ehci->enabled_hrtimer_events) {
> +             ehci->next_hrtimer_event = EHCI_HRTIMER_NO_EVENT;
> +             hrtimer_cancel(&ehci->hrtimer);
> +     } else if (ehci->next_hrtimer_event == event) {
> +             ehci->next_hrtimer_event = EHCI_HRTIMER_NO_EVENT;
> +             ehci_enable_event(ehci,
> +                             ffs(ehci->enabled_hrtimer_events) - 1,
> +                             false);
> +     }
> +}
> +
>  
>  /* Poll the STS_ASS status bit; see when it agrees with CMD_ASE */
>  static void ehci_poll_ASS(struct ehci_hcd *ehci)

Okay.  You can add

Acked-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>

and submit it as a version-2 patch.

By the way, even though it's a little late to ask this...  Why did you 
decide to move only the giveback routine into a tasklet, instead of 
moving the entire interrupt handler?

Alan Stern

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