01-24-2021, 05:12 PM
(01-18-2021, 08:11 PM)HitsuMaruku Wrote: Until the above happened, I again ran a restic restore overnight, this time with 5500 max exlat set. The result was still no disappearing NVMe, so I think for this drive, it's just APST with the PS 4 that's the issue; PS 3 seems to work.
Going to try leaving my PBP on overnight with Gen 1 and no I/O this time, to see if the drive disappears if it goes down to idle PS 3 without heavy load. If that works fine, I'll give Gen 2 speeds a shot.
No issues to report.
Left PBP overnight idling with 5500 max exlat (presumably leaving PS 3 and APST enabled and PS 4 disabled); didn't see any output in feature "0x0c -H" about new state transitions (previously shown 3 entires with 500ms each, unsure when those occurred, or whether they're static or being populated on startup each time, but happens with APST disabled, so make of it what you will).
After, I replaced the device tree back to Gen 2 speeds and did another restore. Everything copied fine, seemed to actually take less power (maybe because it wasn't running at max bandwidth for that gen? idk, I'm speculating).
Thus, for my findings, I'm considering PS 4 the issue. That may be due to this model in particular incompatible with that low power draw for the PBP to sustain, or it may be an issue in compatibility with PCIe power states which work in tandem with NVMe power states. Again, make of it what you will, but for me for this model, disabling PS 4 fixes the disappearing issues.
