Re: [patch] enhance powerd(8) to handle max temperature

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Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> Hi,
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>>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:43:29 +0200
>>>>>> Pietro Cerutti <gahr@gahr.ch> said:
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> gahr> Hi list,
> gahr> here is a patch to allow powerd(8) accept a "-t tval" option to s=
et a
> gahr> temperature limit above which performance should be decreased.
> gahr> It's a first draft, and I identified the following problems:
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> gahr> - the CPU temperature takes some time to decrease, so powerd keep=
s
> gahr> decreasing the CPU frequency until the temperature is below the l=
imit.
> gahr> The effect is a "increase to maximum, decrease to minimum, increa=
se to
> gahr> maximum, decrease to minimum, ...." which may not be desirable.
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> gahr> - the temperature is retrieved by the hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.tempera=
ture
> gahr> sysctl MIB. Support for other methods would be desirable.
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> gahr> The patches to powerd.c and powerd.8 are here:
> gahr> http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/patches/powerd.c.diff
> gahr> http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/patches/powerd.8.diff
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> gahr> Any comment is welcome!
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> We have a passive cooling mechanism already in our kernel.  It runs
> according to an ACPI specification.

You are right, but the passive colling mechanism could not be available
on some systems where thermal is available, and I'm still waiting for
answers about acpi_thermal not sending notifies.
See my previous post:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-July/021361.html

What's wrong with including this feature directly in powerd?

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> Sincerely,
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