Re: SATA powersave patches

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Sep 10 2006 - 18:45:38 EST


Hi!

(cc-ed to the list)

> >>>Do you have SATA powersave patches somewhere handy? I found out that
> >>>SATA eats way too much power.
> >>Hello, Pavel.
> >>
> >>Do you mean link powersaving? Or disk spindown?
> >
> >Link powersaving... disk spindown should be handled by laptop_mode +
> >hdparm -y, right?
>
> Yes for disk spindown. Link powersaving is in the following git tree
> but it's ~2 months old.
>
> http://htj.dyndns.org/git/?p=libata-tj.git;a=shortlog;h=powersave
> git://htj.dyndns.org/libata-tj.git powersave

Thanks... I got it to work (on 2 the old tree, I was not able to
forward-port it), but power savings were not too big (~0.1W, maybe).

I'm getting huge (~1W) savings by powering down SATA controller, as in
ahci_pci_device_suspend(). It would be great to be able to power SATA
controller down, then power it back up when it is needed... I tried
following hack, but could not get it to work. Any ideas?

Pavel

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ahci.c b/drivers/scsi/ahci.c
index 3e98334..b6e9f55 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/ahci.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/ahci.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void ahci_thaw(struct ata_port *a
static void ahci_error_handler(struct ata_port *ap);
static void ahci_post_internal_cmd(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
static int ahci_pci_device_suspend(struct pci_dev *pdev, pm_message_t state);
-static int ahci_pci_device_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev);
+ int ahci_pci_device_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev);
static int ahci_port_standby(void __iomem *port_mmio, u32 cap);
static int ahci_port_spinup(void __iomem *port_mmio, u32 cap);
static int ahci_port_suspend(struct ata_port *ap, pm_message_t state);
@@ -1082,6 +1082,9 @@ static unsigned int ahci_fill_sg(struct
return n_sg;
}

+int suspended;
+struct pci_dev *mydev;
+
int ahci_pci_device_suspend(struct pci_dev *pdev, pm_message_t state)
{
struct ata_host_set *host_set = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
@@ -1089,6 +1092,11 @@ int ahci_pci_device_suspend(struct pci_d
u32 tmp;
int i;

+ if (suspended)
+ return;
+ suspended = 1;
+ mydev = pdev;
+
/* First suspend all ports */
for (i = 0; i < host_set->n_ports; i++) {
struct ata_port *ap;
@@ -1121,6 +1129,10 @@ int ahci_pci_device_resume(struct pci_de
struct ata_port *ap;
u32 i, tmp, irq_stat;

+ if (!suspended)
+ return;
+ suspended = 0;
+
tmp = readl(mmio + HOST_CTL);
if (!(tmp & HOST_AHCI_EN)) {
tmp |= HOST_AHCI_EN;
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c
index e92c31d..89fb997 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c
@@ -2822,6 +2822,14 @@ int ata_scsi_queuecmd(struct scsi_cmnd *
struct Scsi_Host *shost = scsidev->host;
int rc = 0;

+ extern int suspended;
+ extern int ahci_pci_device_suspend(struct pci_dev *pdev, pm_message_t state);
+ extern int ahci_pci_device_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev);
+ extern struct pci_dev *mydev;
+
+ if (suspended)
+ ahci_pci_device_resume(mydev);
+
ap = ata_shost_to_port(shost);

spin_unlock(shost->host_lock);




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