Hi Vincent, Thanks for the patch. One comment about the choice of units below. Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The unit of dynamic-power-coefficient is described as mW/MHz/uV^2 whereas > its usage in the code assumes that unit is mW/GHz/V^2 Instead of choosing GHz as the base, I'd prefer to use uW/MHz/V^2. It'll avoid introducing fractional GHz value for frequency calculations. > In drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c, the code is : > > power = (u64)capacitance * freq_mhz * voltage_mv * voltage_mv; > do_div(power, 1000000000); > > which can be summarized as : > power (mW) = capacitance * freq_mhz/1000 * (voltage_mv/1000)^2 Which would then translate to - power (mW) = power (uW) / 1000 = capacitance * freq_mhz * (voltage_mv/1000)^2 Thanks, Punit > > Furthermore, if we test basic values like : > voltage_mv = 1000mV = 1V > freq_mhz = 1000Mhz = 1Ghz > > The minimum possible power, when dynamic-power-coefficient equals 1, will > be : > min power = 1 * 1000 * (1000000)^2 = 10^15 mW > which is not realistic > > With the unit used by the code, the min power is > min power = 1 * 1 * 1^2 = 1mW which is far more realistic > > Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt > index 29e1dc5..0148d7d 100644 > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt > @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ described below. > Usage: optional > Value type: <prop-encoded-array> > Definition: A u32 value that represents the running time dynamic > - power coefficient in units of mW/MHz/uV^2. The > + power coefficient in units of mW/GHz/V^2. The > coefficient can either be calculated from power > measurements or derived by analysis. > > @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ described below. > > Pdyn = dynamic-power-coefficient * V^2 * f > > - where voltage is in uV, frequency is in MHz. > + where voltage is in V, frequency is in GHz. > > Example 1 (dual-cluster big.LITTLE system 32-bit):
