[PATCH 3/5] cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Update offline CPUs per-cpu thermal pressure
Lukasz Luba
lukasz.luba at arm.com
Fri Oct 15 05:13:47 PDT 2021
On 10/11/21 10:17 PM, Thara Gopinath wrote:
>
>
> On 10/7/21 4:07 AM, Lukasz Luba wrote:
>> The thermal pressure signal gives information to the scheduler about
>> reduced CPU capacity due to thermal. It is based on a value stored in
>> a per-cpu 'thermal_pressure' variable. The online CPUs will get the
>> new value there, while the offline won't. Unfortunately, when the CPU
>> is back online, the value read from per-cpu variable might be wrong
>> (stale data). This might affect the scheduler decisions, since it
>> sees the CPU capacity differently than what is actually available.
>>
>> Fix it by making sure that all online+offline CPUs would get the
>> proper value in their per-cpu variable when there is throttling
>> or throttling is removed.
>>
>> Fixes: 275157b367f479 ("cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Add dcvs interrupt
>> support")
>> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba at arm.com>
>
> Thanks for the fix.
>
> Reviewed-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath at linaro.org>
>
Thank you for the review!
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