Re: [PATCH v1 6/7] arm64: dts: sdm845: Increase alert trip point to 95 degrees

[Matthias Kaehlcke]

Hi Amit,

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 05:30:55AM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> 75 degrees is too aggressive for throttling the CPU. After speaking to
> Qualcomm engineers, increase it to 95 degrees.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi | 16 ++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi
> index c27cbd3bcb0a..29e823b0caf4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi
> @@ -1692,7 +1692,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert0: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1713,7 +1713,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert1: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert2: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1755,7 +1755,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert3: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert4: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert5: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1818,7 +1818,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert6: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};
> @@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@
>  
>  			trips {
>  				cpu_alert7: trip0 {
> -					temperature = <75000>;
> +					temperature = <95000>;
>  					hysteresis = <2000>;
>  					type = "passive";
>  				};

The change itself looks good to me, however I wonder if it would be
worth to eliminate redundancy and merge the current 8 thermal zones
into 2, one for the Silver and one for the Gold cluster (as done by
http://crrev.com/c/1381752). There is a single cooling device for
each cluster, so it's not clear to me if there is any gain from having
a separate thermal zone for each CPU. If it is important to monitor
the temperatures of the individual cores this can still be done by
configuring the thermal zone of the cluster with multiple thermal
sensors.

Cheers

Matthias