Re: usb suspend backtraces.

David Brownell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 15 July 2007, Dave Jones wrote:

> Before I dig deeper, are there other side-effects of changing
> this default ?

Other than spending more power than necessary?  :)

I don't think there should be, but Alan's most on top of these
particular issues.  The main thing I'd worry about is root hubs,
which may be performing undesirable periodic DMAs (1/msec or more
often) if they aren't allowed to suspend their downstream links.
(Called, misleadingly, "global" suspend even though it's limited
to a single USB bus.)

As I recall, both OHCI and EHCI hardware is smart enough that such
DMA polling can be turned off ... leaving the main cost of leaving
some clocks/PLLs running that could otherwise be turned off.  UHCI
had some issues there.

I think we've been finding out a consequence of Microsoft's rarely
using the USB suspend mode:  devices don't get tested with it, so
many of them don't support it correctly.

- Dave


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