Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:40:21 +0530 | From | Viresh Kumar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Introduce the cpu idle cooling driver |
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On 16-04-18, 12:03, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 16/04/2018 11:50, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > On 16-04-18, 11:45, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > >> Can you elaborate a bit ? I'm not sure to get the point. > > > > Sure. With your current code on Hikey960 (big/LITTLE), you end up > > creating two cooling devices, one for the big cluster and one for > > small cluster. Which is the right thing to do, as we also have two > > cpufreq cooling devices. > > > > But with the change Sudeep is referring to, the helper you used to get > > cluster id will return 0 (SoC id) for all the 8 CPUs. So your code > > will end up creating a single cpuidle cooling device for all the CPUs. > > Which would be wrong. > > Is the semantic of topology_physical_package_id changing ?
That's what I understood from his email.
> I don't > understand the change Sudeep is referring to. > > I saw this attempt: > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9959977/
@Sudeep: Is using topology_cod_id() is okay in that case ?
-- viresh
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