Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] thermal/drivers/tegra: Add driver for Tegra30 thermal sensor

[Dmitry Osipenko]

16.06.2021 11:51, Vincent Guittot пишет:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 at 10:39, Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 16.06.2021 11:30, Vincent Guittot пишет:
>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 at 10:03, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> +Vincent.
>>>>
>>>> On 15-06-21, 22:32, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>>> IIUC, the cpufreq already should be prepared for the case where firmware
>>>>> may override frequency. Viresh, could you please clarify what are the
>>>>> possible implications of the frequency overriding?
>>>>
>>>> The only implication is software would think hardware is running at
>>>> some other frequency, while it is not. Not sure if something may break
>>>> as a result of this.
>>>>
>>>> The scheduler's view of CPUs will not be same though, i.e. scheduler
>>>> will see capacity as X, while in reality it has changed to Y.
>>>
>>> thermal_pressure is used by scheduler to balance the load between CPUs
>>> according to the actual max frequency. If the thermal pressure doesn't
>>> reflect reality, scheduler will end up enqueuing too many  tasks on a
>>> throttle CPU.
>>
>> What if all CPUs are throttled equally and running on the same
>> frequency, will throttling have any effect on the scheduler decisions?
> 
> Yes, the capacity is also used to detect when CPUs have spare capacity
> or are already overloaded. We usually try to fill the spare capacity
> of a CPU (CPU's max capacity - current utilization) but he max
> capacity is reduced when the CPU is throttled, and the spare capacity
> doesn't exist but scheduler could try to it
> 

Thank you.