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

[Sudeep Holla]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 02:10:30PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 16/04/2018 12:10, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Actually there is no impact with the change Sudeep is referring to. It
> is for ACPI, we are DT based. Confirmed with Jeremy.
>

No, it will change for DT. The aim is to be consistent irrespective of
h/w or f/w description(i.e ADCPI or DT)

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Regards,
Sudeep