On 14/06/2019 16:02, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 14/06/2019 14:03, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> On 14/06/2019 11:35, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> Am Dienstag, 4. Juni 2019, 18:57:57 CEST schrieb Daniel Lezcano:
>>>> Currently the common thermal zones definitions for the rk3399 assumes
>>>> multiple thermal zones are supported by the governors. This is not the
>>>> case and each thermal zone has its own governor instance acting
>>>> individually without collaboration with other governors.
>>>>
>>>> As the cooling device for the CPU and the GPU thermal zones is the
>>>> same, each governors take different decisions for the same cooling
>>>> device leading to conflicting instructions and an erratic behavior.
>>>>
>>>> As the cooling-maps is about to become an optional property, let's
>>>> remove the cpu cooling device map from the GPU thermal zone.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi | 9 ---------
>>>> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi
>>>> b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi
>>>> index 196ac9b78076..e1357e0f60f7 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399.dtsi
>>>> @@ -821,15 +821,6 @@
>>>> type = "critical";
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>> -
>>>> - cooling-maps {
>>>> - map0 {
>>>> - trip = <&gpu_alert0>;
>>>> - cooling-device =
>>>> - <&cpu_b0 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>,
>>>> - <&cpu_b1 THERMAL_NO_LIMIT THERMAL_NO_LIMIT>;
>>>> - };
>>>> - };
>>>> };
>>>> };
>>>
>>> my knowledge of the thermal framework is not that big, but what about
>>> the
>>> rk3399-devices which further detail the cooling-maps like
>>> rk3399-gru-kevin
>>> and the rk3399-nanopc-t4 with its fan-handling in the cooling-maps?
>>
>> The rk3399-gru-kevin is correct.
>>
>> The rk3399-nanopc-t4 is not correct because the cpu and the gpu are
>> sharing the same cooling device (the fan). There are different
>> configurations:
>>
>> 1. The cpu cooling device for the CPU and the fan for the GPU
>>
>> 2. Different trip points on the CPU thermal zone, eg. one to for the CPU
>> cooling device and another one for the fan.
>>
>> There are some variant for the above. If this board is not on battery,
>> you may want to give priority to the throughput, so activate the fan
>> first and then cool down the CPU. Or if you are on battery, you may want
>> to invert the trip points.
>>
>> In any case, it is not possible to share the same cooling device for
>> different thermal zones.
>
> OK, thanks for the clarification. I'll get my board set up again to
> figure out the best fix for rk3399-nanopc-t4 (FWIW most users are
> probably just using passive cooling or a plain DC fan anyway). You might
> want to raise this issue with the maintainers of
> arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5422-odroidxu3-common.dtsi, since the
> everything-shared-by-everything approach in there was what I used as a
> reference.
Cc'ed: Kukjin Kim and Krzysztof Kozlowski
Easy :)
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