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From:   Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
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On 4/14/20 11:57 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 7:52 PM Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Thermal governors can respond to an overheat event of a cpu by
>> capping the cpu's maximum possible frequency. This in turn
>> means that the maximum available compute capacity of the
>> cpu is restricted. But today in the kernel, task scheduler is
>> not notified of capping of maximum frequency of a cpu.
>> In other words, scheduler is unaware of maximum capacity
>> restrictions placed on a cpu due to thermal activity.
>> This patch series attempts to address this issue.
>>
> 
> I'm just seeing this now via -rc1 and "make oldconfig".
> 
> I'd suggest taking some of the above info and using it to
> create a Kconfig help text for the new option that was added.
Hi Paul,

I will send a patch adding some details to the Kconfig text.

-- 
Warm Regards
Thara