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From: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] sched: Cleanup SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE setup
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 02:07:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200614010755.9129-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200614010755.9129-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com>

As Russell pointed out [1], this option is severely lacking in the
documentation department, and figuring out if one has the required
dependencies to benefit from turning it on is not straightforward.

Make it non user-visible, and add a bit of help to it. While at it, make it
depend on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL.

[1]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200603173150.GB1551@shell.armlinux.org.uk

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
---
 init/Kconfig | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 74a5ac65644f..052c9f4531c2 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -439,8 +439,21 @@ config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ
 	depends on SMP
 
 config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE
-	bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure"
+	bool
 	depends on SMP
+	depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL
+	help
+	  Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the
+	  scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler
+	  that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from
+	  thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of
+	  a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures.
+
+	  If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly,
+	  i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones.
+
+	  This requires the architecture to implement
+	  arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure().
 
 config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
 	bool "BSD Process Accounting"
-- 
2.27.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-14  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-14  1:07 [PATCH 0/3] sched, arch_topology: Thermal pressure configuration cleanup Valentin Schneider
2020-06-14  1:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] thermal/cpu-cooling, sched/core: Cleanup thermal pressure definition Valentin Schneider
2020-06-14  7:39   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-14 21:04     ` Valentin Schneider
2020-06-14  8:57   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-14  9:10   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-18 15:03   ` Vincent Guittot
2020-06-20 17:49     ` Ionela Voinescu
2020-06-20 22:28       ` Valentin Schneider
2020-06-22  8:37         ` Vincent Guittot
2020-07-05 14:19           ` Valentin Schneider
2020-07-06 12:53             ` Vincent Guittot
2020-06-22  8:22       ` Vincent Guittot
2020-06-14  1:07 ` Valentin Schneider [this message]
2020-06-14  1:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm, arm64: Select CONFIG_SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE Valentin Schneider

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