mmc: core: Add load based clock scaling support
The SD3.0/eMMC4.5/SDIO3.0 cards can support clock rates upto
200MHz (SDR104 or HS200 bus speed modes). For some workloads
like video playback it isn't necessary for these cards to run
at such high speed. Running at lower frequency, say 50MHz, in
such cases can still meet the deadlines for data transfers.
Scaling down the clock frequency dynamically has huge power
savings not only because the bus is running at lower frequency
but also has an advantage of scaling down the system core
voltage, if supported.
Provide an ondemand clock scaling support similar to cpufreq
ondemand governor having two thresholds, up_threshold and
down_threshold to decide whether to increase the frequency or
scale it down respectively. The sampling interval is in the
order of milliseconds and should be chosen by host drivers that
enable MMC_CAP2_CLK_SCALE capability to take advantage of clock
scaling. The sampling interval mainly depends on the the clock
switching delays and hence a host driver decision. If sampling
interval is too low frequent switching of frequencies can lead
to high power consumption and if sampling interval is too high,
the clock scaling logic would take long time to realize that the
underlying hardware (controller and card) is busy and scale up
the clocks.
Change-Id: I22a5054beec41b0b66b3bf030ddfcf284de448b3
Signed-off-by: Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthumma@codeaurora.org>
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