From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
To: Alexander Lam <azl@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>,
"R, Durgadoss" <durgadoss.r@intel.com>,
"peter@piie.net" <peter@piie.net>
Subject: RE: thermal governor: does it actually work??
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:53:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361285612.2323.22.camel@rzhang1-mobl4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACWwPit=xxeeCW1+jfxE8eww+P545B5xebh3YT2yE78zcsqSMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 15:26 -0500, Alexander Lam wrote:
>
> On Feb 18, 2013 7:11 AM, "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry I missed that patch.
> >
> > So the problem happens when the acerhdf thermal zone is registered
> when the fan has already been spinning, right?
>
> Correct, when the acerhdf driver is switched into kernel controlled
> mode and the fan is spinning, it stays spinning until the temperature
> goes above the fan-on trip point and then below the fan-off trip
> point. then the fan shuts off.
>
> I don't have an opinion on how this is fixed, so do whatever you want
> with my patch. Maybe you should drop it entirely if we do end up
> applying Peter's fix.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > rui
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Alexander Lam [mailto:azl@andrew.cmu.edu]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:56 AM
> > To: Andreas Mohr
> > Cc: Zhang, Rui; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; R, Durgadoss;
> peter@piie.net; lenb@kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: thermal governor: does it actually work??
> > Importance: High
> >
> >
> >
> > I wrote a patch to fix this:
> >
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/30/47
I think this is the right fix, but I still need to check if there is
some extra work needed before applying it.
thanks,
rui
> >
> > But nobody picked it up and since then I have been too busy to
> respin the patch for new -rc kernels.
> >
> > -Alexander Lam
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:47:07AM +0000, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> > > Please attach the output of
> > > "grep . /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/cdev*/*"?
> >
> > # grep . /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/cdev*/*
> > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/cur_state:1
> > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/max_state:1
> > grep: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/power: Is a directory
> > grep: /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/subsystem: Is a
> directory
> > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/type:acerhdf-fan
> >
> >
> > > The question is that if we can also call it "throttle" when
> reducing the device performance to generate less heat.
> >
> > I won't continue to elaborate on this separate issue now, given that
> my time
> > currently is very limited ;)
> >
> >
> > Andreas Mohr
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> >
>
> -Alexander Lam
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-19 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 15:32 thermal governor: does it actually work?? Andreas Mohr
2013-02-15 9:47 ` Zhang, Rui
2013-02-15 15:49 ` Andreas Mohr
2013-02-16 21:08 ` Alexander Lam
2013-02-16 21:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-17 2:43 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-02-17 14:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-17 15:41 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-02-18 13:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-18 16:47 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-02-19 14:51 ` Zhang Rui
2013-02-19 15:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-19 15:27 ` Zhang Rui
[not found] ` <CACWwPisqpmLjiqEh+J2DjnEtNObmmA0w=qMQYTgBsb6Ntad7Pw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <744357E9AAD1214791ACBA4B0B90926329F98E@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com>
[not found] ` <CACWwPit=xxeeCW1+jfxE8eww+P545B5xebh3YT2yE78zcsqSMg@mail.gmail.com>
2013-02-18 20:33 ` Alexander Lam
2013-02-19 14:53 ` Zhang Rui [this message]
2013-02-19 15:35 ` Zhang Rui
2013-02-22 5:33 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-02-22 11:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-23 19:20 ` [PATCH] acerhdf: Fix fan activation with new thermal governor Borislav Petkov
2013-02-24 11:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-24 11:42 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-02-24 12:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-24 12:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-25 3:06 ` Zhang Rui
2013-02-25 10:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-25 10:36 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-02-24 14:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-25 3:21 ` Zhang Rui
2013-02-25 10:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-25 12:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-04 13:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-04 19:25 ` Andreas Mohr
2013-03-05 21:59 ` Andreas Mohr
2013-03-06 3:47 ` Zhang Rui
2013-03-06 7:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-06 7:30 ` Zhang Rui
2013-03-06 7:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-03-07 20:17 ` Peter Feuerer
2013-03-07 20:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-02-25 3:01 ` Zhang Rui
2013-02-25 2:58 ` Zhang Rui
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