On Wed, May 8, 2024, at 8:24 AM, Shen, Yijun wrote:
Hi Lyndon,
Thanks for working on this patch.
Dell side has an initial testing with this patch on some laptops, it
looks good. While changing the platform profile:
1. The corresponding USTT option in BIOS will be changed.
2. thermald will not be impacted. The related PSVT and ITMT will be
loaded.
Some Dell DTs does not have the USTT, Dell'll have a check if nothing
is broken.
Additional, with this patch, follow behavior is found:
1. For example, the platform profile is quiet.
2. Reboot the system and change the USTT to performance.
3. Boot to desktop, the platform profile is "quiet", the USTT will be
changed back to "quiet".
This looks like not a proper user experience. The platform profile
should honor the BIOS setting, aka, the platform profile should be
switched to "performance".
Hello:
Thank you for your email. This is definitely undesirable behaviour, I will have a look at the code to see why this is happening. Does it always revert to quiet on boot, or always the mode that you had switched to prior to reboot?
Do you happen to have power-profiles-daemon or something similar running? My understanding is it remembers profiles across reboots, this could potentially also revert the profile back to what it was. See this release for details:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon/-/releases/0.9.0
I will assume there is a bug in my code at this point. I will test with and without ppd running on my system to see if it changes across reboots.
Are USTT settings exposed in your BIOS configuration menu? On my laptop they are not and I have to use smbios-thermal-ctl.
Thank you,
Lyndon