[PATCHv3 2/8] devfreq: exynos: Add documentation for generic exynos memory bus frequency driver

Chanwoo Choi cw00.choi at samsung.com
Tue Jan 20 22:12:57 PST 2015


On 01/21/2015 01:37 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 21 January 2015 at 09:50, Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi at samsung.com> wrote:
>> If the clock will be stayed on highest voltage, will reduce
>> the considerable benefit of power-consumption.
> 
> But this is exactly what you must be doing right now as well..
> I think I didn't make it clear enough with an example. Let me
> try..
> 
> This is how I feel it should look like:
> 
>        memory_bus_int: memory_bus at 1 {
>                // Regulator is shared for all below
>                blocks {
>                        peri_block: memory_bus_block1 {
>                                 operating-points = <
>                                         100000 850000
>                                         50000  850000>;
>                        };
> 
>                        display_block: memory_bus_block2 {
>                                 operating-points = <
>                                         200000 950000
>                                         160000 950000
>                                         100000 925000
>                                         80000  850000
>                                         50000  850000>;
>                        };
> 
>                        isp_block: memory_bus_block3 {
>                                 operating-points = <
>                                         200000 950000
>                                         100000 925000
>                                         80000  850000
>                                         50000  850000>;
>                        };
> 
>                        gps_block: memory_bus_block4 {
>                                 operating-points = <
>                                         300000 950000
>                                         200000 950000
>                                         133000 925000
>                                         100000 850000
>                                         50000  850000>;
>                        };
> 
> 
> Now suppose these are the requirements from all the blocks
> at any point of time:
> - block1: 100000 850000
> - block2: 100000 925000
> - block3: 80000  850000
> - block4: 133000 925000
> 
> Now, all of them can control freq separately and we don't need to
> worry for that. But regulator is shared between them. We can check
> what's the highest voltage requested at this point of time and can
> switch to that.
> 
> i.e. 925000 in this case. And that's not the highest possible one.
> And you will reach to similar conclusion with your current code as
> well I believe.
> 

OK, I understand.
I'll try to update exynos memory bus according to your comment.

Thanks
Chanwoo











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