Re: [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: fix reverse ASPM L0s assignment of upstream and downstream

[Sinan Kaya]

On 5/25/2016 1:50 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> > You are saying that it is OK to enable L0s on just one side of the
>> > link as long as both sides support L0s. 
> I'm not sure what you mean by the link parameters not being
> compatible, but I think it is legal to enable L0s on only one
> direction.

I'm talking about L0s acceptable and entry latency times used to
determine when L0s can be enabled.

> 
>> > This part is a little bit misleading. I had HW people telling me
>> > that both sides need to enable L0s at about the same time.
> I don't remember seeing anything like that in the spec.  Do they have
> a pointer?  "At about the same time" is too hand-wavey to be useful to
> software.
> 

OK. Let me do some more push back. I wanted to understand the OS
behavior and its reasoning.

Your answers are sufficient.

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Sinan Kaya
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