Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Add fine-grain temperature reporting

[Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 10:22:14AM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 6:06 AM Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 06:50, Jeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Commit d32656373857 ("drm/nouveau/therm/gp100: initial implementation of
> > > new gp1xx temperature sensor") added support for reading finer-grain
> > > temperatures, but continued to report temperatures in 1 degree Celsius
> > > increments via nvkm_therm_temp_get().
> > >
> > > Rather than altering nvkm_therm_temp_get() to report finer-grain
> > > temperatures, which would be inconvenient for other users of the
> > > function, a second interface has been added to line up with hwmon's
> > > native unit of temperature.
> > Hey Jeremy,
> >
> > Sorry this slipped past me until now.  I'm OK with adding support for
> > millidegree temperature reporting, but don't think we need to keep
> > both interfaces around and would rather see the existing code
> > converted to return millidegrees (even on GPUs that don't support it)
> > instead of degrees.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Ben.
> >
> 
> just a note as I was trying something like that in the past: we have a
> lot of code which fetches the temperature and there are a lot of
> places where we would then do a divide by 1000, so having a wrapper
> function at least makes sense. If we want to keep the func pointers?
> well.. I guess the increased CPU overhead wouldn't be as bad if all
> sub classes do this static * 1000 as well either. I just think we
> should have both interfaces in subdev/therm.h so we can just keep most
> of the current code as is.
> 

Indeed. My initial plan was to change the meaning of temp_get() and
adjust all the users, but there's around a dozen of them and based on my
understanding of the users none of them cared much about such accuracy.

However, I do find having one way to do things appealing, so if there's
a strong preference for it, I'm happy to produce a somewhat more
invasive patch where all users expect millidegrees.

- Jeremy