[Skiboot] [PATCH v2] SLW: Remove stop1_lite and stop2_lite

[Vaidyanathan Srinivasan]

* Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-05-25 10:26:21]:

> Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > stop1_lite has been removed since it adds no additional benefit
> > over stop0_lite. stop2_lite has been removed since currently it adds
> > minimal benefit over stop2. However, the benefit is eclipsed by the time
> > required to ungate the clocks
> >
> > Moreover, Lite states don't give up the SMT resources, can potentially
> > have a performance impact on sibling threads.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/slw.c | 36 ++++++++----------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> As discussed on phone, I've merged this into master as of
> 34e9c3c1edb3eed02f428f9cbf97d99b3db43d4d and we can work on getting
> things back and having smarter kernel and firmware over the next few
> months.
> 
> I gather this should also head to stable so that it ends up in customer
> hands in a timely fashion?

Hi Stewart,

Thanks a lot.  Yes, once the kernel gets smarter we should add some of
these back.

This should go to stable for P9 customers and builds.  Not needed for
older stable branches of skiboot.

--Vaidy