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

[Srinivas Pandruvada]

On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 22:21 -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> 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
You are getting too many interrupts at 95C. You should look at your
cooling system. 

> 
> > > 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
> disable
> it.
Generally compile time flag is not desirable. If it is what required
then we should have boot time flag something in lines of existing
"int_pln_enable" option.

Thanks,
Srinivas