libata: Add new med_power_with_dipm link_power_management_policy setting
As described by Matthew Garret quite a while back:
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/34868.html
Intel CPUs starting with the Haswell generation need SATA links to power
down for the "package" part of the CPU to reach low power-states like
PC7 / P8 which bring a significant power-saving with them.
The default max_performance lpm policy does not allow for these high
PC states, both the medium_power and min_power policies do allow this.
The min_power policy saves significantly more power, but there are some
reports of some disks / SSDs not liking min_power leading to system
crashes and in some cases even data corruption has been reported.
Matthew has found a document documenting the default settings of
Intel's IRST Windows driver with which most laptops ship:
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/doc/reference-guide/sata-devices-implementation-recommendations.pdf
Matthew wrote a patch changing med_power to match those defaults, but
that never got anywhere as some people where reporting issues with the
patch-set that patch was a part of.
This commit is another attempt to make the default IRST driver settings
available under Linux, but instead of changing medium_power and
potentially introducing regressions, this commit adds a new
med_power_with_dipm setting which is identical to the existing
medium_power accept that it enables dipm on top, which makes it match
the Windows IRST driver settings, which should hopefully be safe to
use on most devices.
The med_power_with_dipm setting is close to min_power, except that:
a) It does not use host-initiated slumber mode (ASP not set),
but it does allow device-initiated slumber
b) It does not enable DevSlp mode
On my T440s test laptop I get the following power savings when idle:
medium_power 0.9W
med_power_with_dipm 1.2W
min_power 1.2W
Suggested-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
index e4effef..49b3745 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
@@ -3454,9 +3454,9 @@ static int ata_eh_maybe_retry_flush(struct ata_device *dev)
* @r_failed_dev: out parameter for failed device
*
* Enable SATA Interface power management. This will enable
- * Device Interface Power Management (DIPM) for min_power
- * policy, and then call driver specific callbacks for
- * enabling Host Initiated Power management.
+ * Device Interface Power Management (DIPM) for min_power and
+ * medium_power_with_dipm policies, and then call driver specific
+ * callbacks for enabling Host Initiated Power management.
*
* LOCKING:
* EH context.
@@ -3502,7 +3502,7 @@ static int ata_eh_set_lpm(struct ata_link *link, enum ata_lpm_policy policy,
hints &= ~ATA_LPM_HIPM;
/* disable DIPM before changing link config */
- if (policy != ATA_LPM_MIN_POWER && dipm) {
+ if (policy < ATA_LPM_MED_POWER_WITH_DIPM && dipm) {
err_mask = ata_dev_set_feature(dev,
SETFEATURES_SATA_DISABLE, SATA_DIPM);
if (err_mask && err_mask != AC_ERR_DEV) {
@@ -3545,7 +3545,7 @@ static int ata_eh_set_lpm(struct ata_link *link, enum ata_lpm_policy policy,
/* host config updated, enable DIPM if transitioning to MIN_POWER */
ata_for_each_dev(dev, link, ENABLED) {
- if (policy == ATA_LPM_MIN_POWER && !no_dipm &&
+ if (policy >= ATA_LPM_MED_POWER_WITH_DIPM && !no_dipm &&
ata_id_has_dipm(dev->id)) {
err_mask = ata_dev_set_feature(dev,
SETFEATURES_SATA_ENABLE, SATA_DIPM);
