Re: [PATCH] ACPI / sleep: EC-based wakeup from suspend-to-idle on recent systems

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, June 27, 2017 03:50:33 PM Tom Lanyon wrote:
> On 23 June 2017 at 12:40, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some recent Dell laptops, including the XPS13 model numbers 9360 and
> >> 9365, cannot be woken up from suspend-to-idle by pressing the power
> >> button which is unexpected and makes that feature less usable on
> >> those systems.  [ details removed ]
> >
> > This looks much more reasonable and more likely to work on future machines too.
> >
> > Of course, who knows what broken machines it will cause problems on,
> > but it sounds like the code now does what it's supposed to and what
> > Win10 does, so maybe it JustWorks(tm). Hah.
> 
> Rafael - thanks for your efforts on this.

You're welcome!

> I wanted to provide some feedback from some quick and naive tests on
> an XPS 13 9365 in case it was useful, as it seems like there's still
> some way to go before matching Win10's behaviour.
> 
>     Linux idling w/ screen ON => 17% battery drain per hour.
>     Linux idling w/ screen OFF => 12% battery drain per hour.
>     Linux during s2idle => 6% battery drain per hour.
>     Win10 during sleep => 1% battery drain per hour.
> 
> where Linux = 4.12-rc6 + the latest patch from your acpi-pm-test branch.
> 
> So whilst s2idle halves the battery drain compared to the machine
> staying powered on, it's still significantly more draining than Win10.

Thanks for the data.

> Let me know if there's any more useful analysis I can do.

I would carry out s2idle under turbostat to see how much PC10 residency is
there while suspended.  That may be a significant factor.

Most likely there is a device preventing the SoC from reaching its deepest
low-power states under Linux on your system and it needs to be identified
and dealt with.

Thanks,
Rafael