USB: improve ehci_watchdog's side effect in CPU power management
authorYi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:25:44 +0000 (17:25 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:41:02 +0000 (14:41 -0700)
ehci_watchdog will wake up CPU very frequently so that CPU
stays at C3 very short, average residence time is about 50
ms on Aspire One, but we expect it should be about 1 second
or more, so this kind of periodic timer is very bad for power
saving.

We can't remove this timer because of some bad USB controller
chipset, but at least we should reduce its side effect to as
possible as low.

This patch can make CPU stay at C3 longer, average residence time
is about twice as long as original.

Please consider to apply it, thanks

Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/host/ehci.h

index fb1770d..a6fd550 100644 (file)
@@ -181,14 +181,16 @@ timer_action (struct ehci_hcd *ehci, enum ehci_timer_action action)
         * the async ring; just the I/O watchdog.  Note that if a
         * SHRINK were pending, OFF would never be requested.
         */
-       if (timer_pending(&ehci->watchdog)
-                       && ((BIT(TIMER_ASYNC_SHRINK) | BIT(TIMER_ASYNC_OFF))
-                               & ehci->actions))
-               return;
+       enum ehci_timer_action oldactions = ehci->actions;
 
        if (!test_and_set_bit (action, &ehci->actions)) {
                unsigned long t;
 
+               if (timer_pending(&ehci->watchdog)
+                       && ((BIT(TIMER_ASYNC_SHRINK) | BIT(TIMER_ASYNC_OFF))
+                               & oldactions))
+                       return;
+
                switch (action) {
                case TIMER_IO_WATCHDOG:
                        t = EHCI_IO_JIFFIES;
@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ timer_action (struct ehci_hcd *ehci, enum ehci_timer_action action)
                        t = DIV_ROUND_UP(EHCI_SHRINK_FRAMES * HZ, 1000) + 1;
                        break;
                }
-               mod_timer(&ehci->watchdog, t + jiffies);
+               mod_timer(&ehci->watchdog, round_jiffies(t + jiffies));
        }
 }