Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Introduce the cpu idle cooling driver

[Viresh Kumar]

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 ?

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viresh