Re: [PATCH] ath10k: disable cpuidle during downloading firmware.

From: Ikjoon Jang
Date: Wed Nov 06 2019 - 23:16:58 EST


On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 2:23 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Ikjoon Jang <ikjn@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > Downloading ath10k firmware needs a large number of IOs and
> > cpuidle's miss predictions make it worse. In the worst case,
> > resume time can be three times longer than the average on sdio.
> >
> > This patch disables cpuidle during firmware downloading by
> > applying PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY in ath10k_download_fw().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ikjoon Jang <ikjn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On what hardware and firmware versions did you test this? I'll add that
> to the commit log.
>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/submittingpatches#guidelines

Thank you for sharing it.
It's QCA6174 hw3.2 SDIO WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00029
on ARMv8 multi cluster platform.

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