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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] PM: opp: allow control of multiple clocks
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On 19/05/2022 01:57, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Viresh Kumar (2022-05-10 22:06:43)
>> On 10-05-22, 15:09, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>> On 10/05/2022 06:40, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>>> IMHO, this is broken by design. I can easily see that someone wants to
>>>> have few variants of all other frequencies for the same frequency of
>>>> the so called "main" clock, i.e. multiple OPPs with same "main" freq
>>>> value. I don't think we can mark the clocks "main" or otherwise as
>>>> easily for every platform.
>>>>
>>>> Stephen, any inputs on this ?
>>>
>>> In such case, matching opps by frequency would be a quite different API.
>>> The drivers can use now:
>>> https://github.com/krzk/linux/commit/ebc31798494fcc66389ae409dce6d9489c16156a#diff-b6370444c32afa2e55d9b6150f355ba6f4d20c5ed5da5399ea8295d323de8267R1200
>>>
>>> If you assume that this frequency can be used for multiple OPPs, then
>>> the API should be different. Something like:
>>> int dev_pm_opp_set_rate(struct device *dev, unsigned long *target_freqs,
>>> size_t num_freqs);
>>
>> At this point I am not looking for a new API, but just continuing the discussion
>> to understand what different hardwares want or look like.
>
> I think for UFS they don't want a rate API at all. They want to set a
> "clock gear" and that translates into whatever that means for OPP; be it
> a clk frequency (or two), an interconnect bandwidth (or multiple?), and some
> performance state (or many) for any power domains. I think the gear
> design is built into the UFS spec. If it isn't then I'm misremembering
> things.

Yes, true. The clock frequencies are still changed with each gear, but
in general the UFS indeed operates on gear concept.

Best regards,
Krzysztof

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