Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-10-16 Thread Sultan Alsawaf
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 01:16:18PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/22/20 11:19 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Sultan Alsawaf 
> >>
> >> This is a fixed resubmission of "[PATCH 0/2] i2c-hid: Save power by 
> >> reducing i2c
> >> xfers with block reads". That original patchset did not have enough fixes 
> >> for
> >> the designware i2c adapter's I2C_M_RECV_LEN feature, which is documented
> >> extensively in the original email thread.
> >>
> >> Here is the original cover letter, which still applies:
> >> "I noticed on my Dell Precision 15 5540 with an i9-9880H that simply 
> >> putting my
> >> finger on the touchpad would increase my system's power consumption by 4W, 
> >> which
> >> is quite considerable. Resting my finger on the touchpad would generate 
> >> roughly
> >> 4000 i2c irqs per second, or roughly 20 i2c irqs per touchpad irq.
> >>
> >> Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the i2c-hid driver would always 
> >> transfer
> >> the maximum report size over i2c (which is 60 bytes for my touchpad), but 
> >> all of
> >> my touchpad's normal touch events are only 32 bytes long according to the 
> >> length
> >> byte contained in the buffer sequence.
> >>
> >> Therefore, I was able to save about 2W of power by passing the 
> >> I2C_M_RECV_LEN
> >> flag in i2c-hid, which says to look for the payload length in the first 
> >> byte of
> >> the transfer buffer and adjust the i2c transaction accordingly. The only 
> >> problem
> >> though is that my i2c controller's driver allows bytes other than the 
> >> first one
> >> to be used to retrieve the payload length, which is incorrect according to 
> >> the
> >> SMBus spec, and would break my i2c-hid change since not *all* of the 
> >> reports
> >> from my touchpad are conforming SMBus block reads.
> >>
> >> This patchset fixes the I2C_M_RECV_LEN behavior in the designware i2c 
> >> driver and
> >> modifies i2c-hid to use I2C_M_RECV_LEN to save quite a bit of power. Even 
> >> if the
> >> peripheral controlled by i2c-hid doesn't support block reads, the i2c 
> >> controller
> >> drivers should cope with this and proceed with the i2c transfer using the
> >> original requested length."
> >>
> >> Sultan
> >>
> >> Sultan Alsawaf (4):
> >>   i2c: designware: Fix transfer failures for invalid SMBus block reads
> >>   i2c: designware: Ensure tx_buf_len is nonzero for SMBus block reads
> >>   i2c: designware: Allow SMBus block reads up to 255 bytes in length
> >>   HID: i2c-hid: Use block reads when possible to save power
> >>
> >>  drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c |  5 -
> >>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 15 +--
> >>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Hans, Benjamin, could you please give this patchset some smoke-testing? It 
> > looks good to me, but I'd like it to get some testing from your testing 
> > machinery before merging.
> 
> Sorry for being slow to respond to this. I have not gotten around to testing
> this, but I saw another email that this breaks things on at least AMD
> platforms, so I guess that this is on hold for now ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans

Hi,

Only the i2c-hid-core.c hunk is on hold. It is on hold until every i2c adapter
gets updated for proper block read functionality up to the new block read limit
of 255 bytes. This is not really a surprise.

The designware patches are good to go. Please let me know what you think of
them.

Sultan


Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-10-16 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi,

On 9/22/20 11:19 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:
> 
>> From: Sultan Alsawaf 
>>
>> This is a fixed resubmission of "[PATCH 0/2] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing 
>> i2c
>> xfers with block reads". That original patchset did not have enough fixes for
>> the designware i2c adapter's I2C_M_RECV_LEN feature, which is documented
>> extensively in the original email thread.
>>
>> Here is the original cover letter, which still applies:
>> "I noticed on my Dell Precision 15 5540 with an i9-9880H that simply putting 
>> my
>> finger on the touchpad would increase my system's power consumption by 4W, 
>> which
>> is quite considerable. Resting my finger on the touchpad would generate 
>> roughly
>> 4000 i2c irqs per second, or roughly 20 i2c irqs per touchpad irq.
>>
>> Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the i2c-hid driver would always 
>> transfer
>> the maximum report size over i2c (which is 60 bytes for my touchpad), but 
>> all of
>> my touchpad's normal touch events are only 32 bytes long according to the 
>> length
>> byte contained in the buffer sequence.
>>
>> Therefore, I was able to save about 2W of power by passing the I2C_M_RECV_LEN
>> flag in i2c-hid, which says to look for the payload length in the first byte 
>> of
>> the transfer buffer and adjust the i2c transaction accordingly. The only 
>> problem
>> though is that my i2c controller's driver allows bytes other than the first 
>> one
>> to be used to retrieve the payload length, which is incorrect according to 
>> the
>> SMBus spec, and would break my i2c-hid change since not *all* of the reports
>> from my touchpad are conforming SMBus block reads.
>>
>> This patchset fixes the I2C_M_RECV_LEN behavior in the designware i2c driver 
>> and
>> modifies i2c-hid to use I2C_M_RECV_LEN to save quite a bit of power. Even if 
>> the
>> peripheral controlled by i2c-hid doesn't support block reads, the i2c 
>> controller
>> drivers should cope with this and proceed with the i2c transfer using the
>> original requested length."
>>
>> Sultan
>>
>> Sultan Alsawaf (4):
>>   i2c: designware: Fix transfer failures for invalid SMBus block reads
>>   i2c: designware: Ensure tx_buf_len is nonzero for SMBus block reads
>>   i2c: designware: Allow SMBus block reads up to 255 bytes in length
>>   HID: i2c-hid: Use block reads when possible to save power
>>
>>  drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c |  5 -
>>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 15 +--
>>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Hans, Benjamin, could you please give this patchset some smoke-testing? It 
> looks good to me, but I'd like it to get some testing from your testing 
> machinery before merging.

Sorry for being slow to respond to this. I have not gotten around to testing
this, but I saw another email that this breaks things on at least AMD
platforms, so I guess that this is on hold for now ?

Regards,

Hans



Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-23 Thread Jarkko Nikula

On 9/17/20 5:02 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:26 AM Sultan Alsawaf  wrote:


From: Sultan Alsawaf 

This is a fixed resubmission of "[PATCH 0/2] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c
xfers with block reads". That original patchset did not have enough fixes for
the designware i2c adapter's I2C_M_RECV_LEN feature, which is documented
extensively in the original email thread.

Here is the original cover letter, which still applies:
"I noticed on my Dell Precision 15 5540 with an i9-9880H that simply putting my
finger on the touchpad would increase my system's power consumption by 4W, which
is quite considerable. Resting my finger on the touchpad would generate roughly
4000 i2c irqs per second, or roughly 20 i2c irqs per touchpad irq.

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the i2c-hid driver would always transfer
the maximum report size over i2c (which is 60 bytes for my touchpad), but all of
my touchpad's normal touch events are only 32 bytes long according to the length
byte contained in the buffer sequence.

Therefore, I was able to save about 2W of power by passing the I2C_M_RECV_LEN
flag in i2c-hid, which says to look for the payload length in the first byte of
the transfer buffer and adjust the i2c transaction accordingly. The only problem
though is that my i2c controller's driver allows bytes other than the first one
to be used to retrieve the payload length, which is incorrect according to the
SMBus spec, and would break my i2c-hid change since not *all* of the reports
from my touchpad are conforming SMBus block reads.

This patchset fixes the I2C_M_RECV_LEN behavior in the designware i2c driver and
modifies i2c-hid to use I2C_M_RECV_LEN to save quite a bit of power. Even if the
peripheral controlled by i2c-hid doesn't support block reads, the i2c controller
drivers should cope with this and proceed with the i2c transfer using the
original requested length."


Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
for I²C DesignWare patches.


Also for i2c-designware

Acked-by: Jarkko Nikula 


Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-22 Thread Sultan Alsawaf
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:59:44PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 
> > > Hans, Benjamin, could you please give this patchset some smoke-testing? 
> > > It 
> > > looks good to me, but I'd like it to get some testing from your testing 
> > > machinery before merging.
> > 
> > Please give me some more days. I am not fully convinced yet that this
> > use of I2C_M_RECV_LEN is not broken on some controllers.
> > 
> > Plus, I'd favor if this could go via I2C tree. It is within I2C where
> > the non-trivial changes are. The HID part is just the final bit. Can we
> > agree on that?
> 
> Absolutely no problem with that. But I'd like to have this ran through 
> Benjamin/Hans first too.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
> 

I suppose the HID part does need to be held off until all the adapters are
updated with functional I2C_M_RECV_LEN bits.

I just got a Ryzen laptop which panics when using I2C_M_RECV_LEN.

So it looks like only the designware changes can be considered for merging now.

Sultan


Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-22 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Wolfram Sang wrote:

> > Hans, Benjamin, could you please give this patchset some smoke-testing? It 
> > looks good to me, but I'd like it to get some testing from your testing 
> > machinery before merging.
> 
> Please give me some more days. I am not fully convinced yet that this
> use of I2C_M_RECV_LEN is not broken on some controllers.
> 
> Plus, I'd favor if this could go via I2C tree. It is within I2C where
> the non-trivial changes are. The HID part is just the final bit. Can we
> agree on that?

Absolutely no problem with that. But I'd like to have this ran through 
Benjamin/Hans first too.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-22 Thread Wolfram Sang

> Hans, Benjamin, could you please give this patchset some smoke-testing? It 
> looks good to me, but I'd like it to get some testing from your testing 
> machinery before merging.

Please give me some more days. I am not fully convinced yet that this
use of I2C_M_RECV_LEN is not broken on some controllers.

Plus, I'd favor if this could go via I2C tree. It is within I2C where
the non-trivial changes are. The HID part is just the final bit. Can we
agree on that?



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Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-22 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, Sultan Alsawaf wrote:

> From: Sultan Alsawaf 
> 
> This is a fixed resubmission of "[PATCH 0/2] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing 
> i2c
> xfers with block reads". That original patchset did not have enough fixes for
> the designware i2c adapter's I2C_M_RECV_LEN feature, which is documented
> extensively in the original email thread.
> 
> Here is the original cover letter, which still applies:
> "I noticed on my Dell Precision 15 5540 with an i9-9880H that simply putting 
> my
> finger on the touchpad would increase my system's power consumption by 4W, 
> which
> is quite considerable. Resting my finger on the touchpad would generate 
> roughly
> 4000 i2c irqs per second, or roughly 20 i2c irqs per touchpad irq.
> 
> Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the i2c-hid driver would always 
> transfer
> the maximum report size over i2c (which is 60 bytes for my touchpad), but all 
> of
> my touchpad's normal touch events are only 32 bytes long according to the 
> length
> byte contained in the buffer sequence.
> 
> Therefore, I was able to save about 2W of power by passing the I2C_M_RECV_LEN
> flag in i2c-hid, which says to look for the payload length in the first byte 
> of
> the transfer buffer and adjust the i2c transaction accordingly. The only 
> problem
> though is that my i2c controller's driver allows bytes other than the first 
> one
> to be used to retrieve the payload length, which is incorrect according to the
> SMBus spec, and would break my i2c-hid change since not *all* of the reports
> from my touchpad are conforming SMBus block reads.
> 
> This patchset fixes the I2C_M_RECV_LEN behavior in the designware i2c driver 
> and
> modifies i2c-hid to use I2C_M_RECV_LEN to save quite a bit of power. Even if 
> the
> peripheral controlled by i2c-hid doesn't support block reads, the i2c 
> controller
> drivers should cope with this and proceed with the i2c transfer using the
> original requested length."
> 
> Sultan
> 
> Sultan Alsawaf (4):
>   i2c: designware: Fix transfer failures for invalid SMBus block reads
>   i2c: designware: Ensure tx_buf_len is nonzero for SMBus block reads
>   i2c: designware: Allow SMBus block reads up to 255 bytes in length
>   HID: i2c-hid: Use block reads when possible to save power
> 
>  drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c |  5 -
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 15 +--
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Hans, Benjamin, could you please give this patchset some smoke-testing? It 
looks good to me, but I'd like it to get some testing from your testing 
machinery before merging.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-17 Thread Andy Shevchenko
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:26 AM Sultan Alsawaf  wrote:
>
> From: Sultan Alsawaf 
>
> This is a fixed resubmission of "[PATCH 0/2] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing 
> i2c
> xfers with block reads". That original patchset did not have enough fixes for
> the designware i2c adapter's I2C_M_RECV_LEN feature, which is documented
> extensively in the original email thread.
>
> Here is the original cover letter, which still applies:
> "I noticed on my Dell Precision 15 5540 with an i9-9880H that simply putting 
> my
> finger on the touchpad would increase my system's power consumption by 4W, 
> which
> is quite considerable. Resting my finger on the touchpad would generate 
> roughly
> 4000 i2c irqs per second, or roughly 20 i2c irqs per touchpad irq.
>
> Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the i2c-hid driver would always 
> transfer
> the maximum report size over i2c (which is 60 bytes for my touchpad), but all 
> of
> my touchpad's normal touch events are only 32 bytes long according to the 
> length
> byte contained in the buffer sequence.
>
> Therefore, I was able to save about 2W of power by passing the I2C_M_RECV_LEN
> flag in i2c-hid, which says to look for the payload length in the first byte 
> of
> the transfer buffer and adjust the i2c transaction accordingly. The only 
> problem
> though is that my i2c controller's driver allows bytes other than the first 
> one
> to be used to retrieve the payload length, which is incorrect according to the
> SMBus spec, and would break my i2c-hid change since not *all* of the reports
> from my touchpad are conforming SMBus block reads.
>
> This patchset fixes the I2C_M_RECV_LEN behavior in the designware i2c driver 
> and
> modifies i2c-hid to use I2C_M_RECV_LEN to save quite a bit of power. Even if 
> the
> peripheral controlled by i2c-hid doesn't support block reads, the i2c 
> controller
> drivers should cope with this and proceed with the i2c transfer using the
> original requested length."

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
for I²C DesignWare patches.

>
> Sultan
>
> Sultan Alsawaf (4):
>   i2c: designware: Fix transfer failures for invalid SMBus block reads
>   i2c: designware: Ensure tx_buf_len is nonzero for SMBus block reads
>   i2c: designware: Allow SMBus block reads up to 255 bytes in length
>   HID: i2c-hid: Use block reads when possible to save power
>
>  drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c |  5 -
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 15 +--
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.28.0
>


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


[PATCH v2 0/4] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c xfers with block reads

2020-09-16 Thread Sultan Alsawaf
From: Sultan Alsawaf 

This is a fixed resubmission of "[PATCH 0/2] i2c-hid: Save power by reducing i2c
xfers with block reads". That original patchset did not have enough fixes for
the designware i2c adapter's I2C_M_RECV_LEN feature, which is documented
extensively in the original email thread.

Here is the original cover letter, which still applies:
"I noticed on my Dell Precision 15 5540 with an i9-9880H that simply putting my
finger on the touchpad would increase my system's power consumption by 4W, which
is quite considerable. Resting my finger on the touchpad would generate roughly
4000 i2c irqs per second, or roughly 20 i2c irqs per touchpad irq.

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the i2c-hid driver would always transfer
the maximum report size over i2c (which is 60 bytes for my touchpad), but all of
my touchpad's normal touch events are only 32 bytes long according to the length
byte contained in the buffer sequence.

Therefore, I was able to save about 2W of power by passing the I2C_M_RECV_LEN
flag in i2c-hid, which says to look for the payload length in the first byte of
the transfer buffer and adjust the i2c transaction accordingly. The only problem
though is that my i2c controller's driver allows bytes other than the first one
to be used to retrieve the payload length, which is incorrect according to the
SMBus spec, and would break my i2c-hid change since not *all* of the reports
from my touchpad are conforming SMBus block reads.

This patchset fixes the I2C_M_RECV_LEN behavior in the designware i2c driver and
modifies i2c-hid to use I2C_M_RECV_LEN to save quite a bit of power. Even if the
peripheral controlled by i2c-hid doesn't support block reads, the i2c controller
drivers should cope with this and proceed with the i2c transfer using the
original requested length."

Sultan

Sultan Alsawaf (4):
  i2c: designware: Fix transfer failures for invalid SMBus block reads
  i2c: designware: Ensure tx_buf_len is nonzero for SMBus block reads
  i2c: designware: Allow SMBus block reads up to 255 bytes in length
  HID: i2c-hid: Use block reads when possible to save power

 drivers/hid/i2c-hid/i2c-hid-core.c |  5 -
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-designware-master.c | 15 +--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

-- 
2.28.0