Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2022 16:50:22 -0800 | From | Matthias Kaehlcke <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] thermal: cooling: Check Energy Model type in cpufreq_cooling and devfreq_cooling |
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 07:30:35AM +0000, Lukasz Luba wrote: > The Energy Model supports power values either in Watts or in some abstract > scale. When the 2nd option is in use, the thermal governor IPA should not > be allowed to operate, since the relation between cooling devices is not > properly defined. Thus, it might be possible that big GPU has lower power > values in abstract scale than a Little CPU. To mitigate a misbehaviour > of the thermal control algorithm, simply not register a cooling device > capable of working with IPA.
Ugh, this would break thermal throttling for existing devices that are currently supported in the upstream kernel.
Wasn't the conclusion that it is the responsability of the device tree owners to ensure that cooling devices with different scales aren't used in the same thermal zone?
That's also what's currently specified in the power allocator documentation:
Another important thing is the consistent scale of the power values provided by the cooling devices. All of the cooling devices in a single thermal zone should have power values reported either in milli-Watts or scaled to the same 'abstract scale'.
Which was actually added by yourself:
commit 5a64f775691647c242aa40d34f3512e7b179a921 Author: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Date: Tue Nov 3 09:05:58 2020 +0000
PM: EM: Clarify abstract scale usage for power values in Energy Model
The Energy Model (EM) can store power values in milli-Watts or in abstract scale. This might cause issues in the subsystems which use the EM for estimating the device power, such as:
- mixing of different scales in a subsystem which uses multiple (cooling) devices (e.g. thermal Intelligent Power Allocation (IPA))
- assuming that energy [milli-Joules] can be derived from the EM power values which might not be possible since the power scale doesn't have to be in milli-Watts
To avoid misconfiguration add the requisite documentation to the EM and related subsystems: EAS and IPA.
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
It's ugly to have the abstract scales in the first place, but that's unfortunately what we currently have for at least some cooling devices.
IMO it would be preferable to stick to catching incompliant configurations in reviews, rather than breaking thermal throttling for existing devices with configurations that comply with the current documentation.
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