Re: [PATCH 3/3] Thermal:core: Handle trips focused on current trippoint only.

From: jonghwa3 . lee
Date: Mon May 20 2013 - 23:41:03 EST


On 2013ë 05ì 21ì 01:00, Zhang, Rui wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jonghwa Lee [mailto:jonghwa3.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:51 PM
>> To: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Zhang, Rui; Eduardo Valentin; Amit
>> Dinel Kachhap; Jonghwa Lee; MyungJoo Ham
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Thermal:core: Handle trips focused on current trip
>> point only.
>> Importance: High
>>
>> When thermal zone device is updated, it doesn't need to check every
>> trip points and its handling mathod even current temperature doesn't
>> exceed the trip's temperature. To modify those dissipatve mechanism,
>> this patch introduces the way to get current thermal trip point to call
>> only correspond trip point handling.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonghwa Lee <jonghwa3.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NAK.
>
>> ---
>> drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-----------
>> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c index ce4384a..1cc4825 100644
>> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
>> @@ -333,14 +333,6 @@ static void handle_non_critical_trips(struct
>> thermal_zone_device *tz, static void handle_critical_trips(struct
>> thermal_zone_device *tz,
>> int trip, enum thermal_trip_type trip_type) {
>> - long trip_temp;
>> -
>> - tz->ops->get_trip_temp(tz, trip, &trip_temp);
>> -
>> - /* If we have not crossed the trip_temp, we do not care. */
>> - if (tz->temperature < trip_temp)
>> - return;
>> -
>> if (tz->ops->notify)
>> tz->ops->notify(tz, trip, trip_type);
>>
>> @@ -437,14 +429,28 @@ static void update_temperature(struct
>> thermal_zone_device *tz)
>> mutex_unlock(&tz->lock);
>> }
>>
>> +static int thermal_zone_get_current_trip(struct thermal_zone_device
>> +*tz) {
>> + int trip;
>> + long trip_temp;
>> +
>> + for (trip = tz->trips - 1; trip > 0; trip--) {
>> + tz->ops->get_trip_temp(tz, trip, &trip_temp);
>> + if (tz->temperature > trip_temp)
>> + continue;
>> + }
>> + return trip;
>> +}
>> +
>> void thermal_zone_device_update(struct thermal_zone_device *tz) {
>> - int count;
>> + int trip;
>>
>> update_temperature(tz);
>>
>> - for (count = 0; count < tz->trips; count++)
>> - handle_thermal_trip(tz, count);
>> + trip = thermal_zone_get_current_trip(tz);
>> +
>> + handle_thermal_trip(tz, trip);
>
> Say, trip point 1 for thermal zone 0 is 60C,
> The system is running above 60C for somethime,
> thus the thermal_instance for this trip point is running at upper_limit.
> When the temperature suddenly drops below 60C,
> we still need to handle trip point 1 to deactivate it.
>


Okay, I understood. I missed the point that governor will handle a cooling
device within certain trip point described in thermal instance.
But still I don't think this is the best behaviour. Let say we were in trip
level 2nd and moving to trip level 1st then we should call governor twice for
applying trip 1 level. Why don't we just call once? And whenever we call
handle_thermal_trip() with all trips, monitor_thermal_work() will also be called
at the same time. I think we can make this work more clearly and intuitively.
let me think of it more,,,

Thanks,
Jonghwa.

> Thanks,
> rui
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_zone_device_update);
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.9.5
>
>


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