Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86/mce/therm_throt: allow disabling the thermal vector altogether

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:38 PM Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 00:33 -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > The thermal IRQ handler uses 1.21% CPU on my system when it's hot
> > from
> > compiling things. Indeed looking at /proc/interrupts reveals quite a
> > lot
> I am curious why you are hitting threshold frequently?
> What is rdmsr 0x1a2

5640000

> > of events coming in. Beyond logging them, the existing drivers on the
> > system don't appear to do very much that I'm interested in. So, add a
> > way to disable this entirely so that I can regain precious CPU
> > cycles.
> It is showing amount of time system is running in a constrained
> environment. Lots of real time and HPC folks really care about this.

Which is why this patch adds an option, not a full removal or
something. Real time and HPC people can keep their expensive
interrupt. Other people with different varieties of system can disable
it.