From 98eb401d09301d8a38c31cc8851ba95ac9385c8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Valentin Schneider Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 17:59:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Cleanup SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE kconfig entry 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712165917.9168-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com --- init/Kconfig | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 0498af567f70..0a97d85568b2 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -492,8 +492,21 @@ 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"