Re: [PATCH v4] pci: prevent putting nvidia GPUs into lower device states on certain intel bridges

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 06:17:46 EST


On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:03:52PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:14 AM Mika Westerberg
> <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 10:36:31PM +0100, Karol Herbst wrote:
> > > with the branch and patch applied:
> > > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/karolherbst/03c4c8141b0fa292d781badfa186479e/raw/5c62640afbc57d6e69ea924c338bd2836e770d02/gistfile1.txt
> >
> > Thanks for testing. Too bad it did not help :( I suppose there is no
> > change if you increase the delay to say 1s?
>
> Well, look at the original patch in this thread.
>
> What it does is to prevent the device (GPU in this particular case)
> from going into a PCI low-power state before invoking AML to power it
> down (the AML is still invoked after this patch AFAICS), so why would
> that have anything to do with the delays?

Yes, I know what it does :) I was just thinking that maybe it's still
the link that does not come up when we go back to D0 I guess that's not
the case here.

> The only reason would be the AML running too early, but that doesn't
> seem likely. IMO more likely is that the AML does something which
> cannot be done to a device in a PCI low-power state.

It may very well be the case.