RT throttling and suspend/resume (was Re: [PATCH] i2c: omap: revert "i2c: omap: switch to threaded IRQ support")

[Kevin Hilman]

Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 16:54 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>
>> So I did the same thing for my ARM SoC, and it definitley stops the RT
>> throttling.  
>> 
>> However, it has the undesriable (IMO) side effect of making timed printk
>> output rather unhelpful for debugging suspend/resume since printk time
>> stays constant throughout suspend/resume no matter how long you
>> sleep. :(
>> 
>> So does that mean we have to choose between useful printk times during
>> suspend/resume or functioning IRQ threads during suspend/resume ?
>
> Urgh.. this was not something I considered. This being primarily the
> sched_clock infrastructure and such.
>
> So what exactly is the problem with the suspend resume thing (its not
> something I've ever debugged), is all you need a clean break between pre
> and post suspend, or do you need the actual time the machine was gone?

I think it's more a question of what people are used to.  I think folks
used to debugging suspend/resume (at least on ARM) are used to having
the printk timestamps reflect the amount of time the machine was gone.

With a sched_clock() that counts during suspend, that feature doesn't
work anymore.  I'm not sure that this feature is a deal breaker, but it
has been convenient.  I see that on x86, it's already normal that
printk times don't reflect time spent in suspend, so I guess ARM needs
to adapt.  

Kevin