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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: latest -git: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/ipi.c:123 send_IPI_mask_bitmask+0xc3/0xe0()
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:47:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080825204700.GB27030@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080825203649.GH26610@one.firstfloor.org>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:36:49PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
 
 > > If we get a thermal event that was caused by temporary
 > > increased workload, temperature will drop off again when that workload
 > > is complete.
 > 
 > But none of the cpufreq governours do this. They only care about
 > load, not about temperature.

Which is good enough to stop p4 laptops from shutting down as
soon as they've finished booting up.

 > > For sustained workloads we'd get additional thermal events, at which
 > > time we make a decision "ok, we've throttled as far as we can, and
 > > things are still going badly, power off".
 > 
 > That is what the ACPI driver does when the trip point is reached.

yes, except for that "we've throttled" part.
 
	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19 19:51 latest -git: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/ipi.c:123 send_IPI_mask_bitmask+0xc3/0xe0() Vegard Nossum
2008-08-20  1:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-20  6:26   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-22  0:36     ` Dave Jones
2008-08-22  2:13       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22  2:28         ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-22  6:24           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22  9:35             ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-22 16:41               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-23  6:42                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-23  6:44                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-22 11:13           ` adobriyan
2008-08-24  9:20         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-24 16:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-24 17:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-24 17:22             ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-24 17:45               ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-24 17:59                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-24 18:13                 ` Dave Jones
2008-08-25 18:31                   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-25 18:38                     ` Dave Jones
2008-08-25 18:36                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-25 18:54                     ` Dave Jones
2008-08-25 19:39                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-25 19:50                         ` Dave Jones
2008-08-25 20:36                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-25 20:47                             ` Dave Jones [this message]
2008-08-25 21:24                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-25 19:08                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-25 19:13                       ` Dave Jones

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