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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/3] nvme power saving
    On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> wrote:
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    > On 09/16/2016 12:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
    >>
    >> Hi all-
    >>
    >> Here's v4 of the APST patch set. The biggest bikesheddable thing (I
    >> think) is the scaling factor. I currently have it hardcoded so that
    >> we wait 50x the total latency before entering a power saving state.
    >> On my Samsung 950, this means we enter state 3 (70mW, 0.5ms entry
    >> latency, 5ms exit latency) after 275ms and state 4 (5mW, 2ms entry
    >> latency, 22ms exit latency) after 1200ms. I have the default max
    >> latency set to 25ms.
    >>
    >> FWIW, in practice, the latency this introduces seems to be well
    >> under 22ms, but my benchmark is a bit silly and I might have
    >> measured it wrong. I certainly haven't observed a slowdown just
    >> using my laptop.
    >>
    >> This time around, I changed the names of parameters after Jay
    >> Frayensee got confused by the first try. Now they are:
    >>
    >> - ps_max_latency_us in sysfs: actually controls it.
    >> - nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us: sets the default.
    >>
    >> Yeah, they're mouthfuls, but they should be clearer now.
    >
    >
    > The only thing I don't like about this is the fact that's it's a driver private thing. Similar to ALPM on SATA, it's yet another knob that needs to be set. It we put it somewhere generic, then at least we could potentially use it in a generic fashion.

    Agreed. I'm hoping to hear back from Rafael soon about the dev_pm_qos thing.

    >
    > Additionally, it should not be on by default.

    I think I disagree with this. Since we don't have anything like
    laptop-mode AFAIK, I think we do want it on by default. For the
    server workloads that want to consume more idle power for faster
    response when idle, I think the servers should be willing to make this
    change, just like they need to disable overly deep C states, etc.
    (Admittedly, unifying the configuration would be nice.)

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