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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:31:27 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Atul Pant <quic_atulpant@quicinc.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Disable RT-throttling for idle-inject threads
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:24:15 +0530
Atul Pant <quic_atulpant@quicinc.com> wrote:

> We are trying to implement a solution for thermal mitigation by using
> idle injection on CPUs.  However we face some limitations with the
> current idle-inject framework. As per our need, we want to start
> injecting idle cycles on a cpu for indefinite time (until the
> temperature/power of the CPU falls below a threshold). This will allow
> to keep the hot CPUs in the sleep state until we see improvement in
> temperature/power. If we set idle duration to a large value or have an
> idle-injection ratio of 100%,  then the idle-inject RT thread suffers
> from RT throttling. This results in the CPU exiting from the sleep state
> and consume some power.
> 
> To solve this limitation, we propose a solution to disable RT-throttling
> whenever idle-inject threads run. We achieve this by not accounting the
> runtime for the idle-inject threads.

I'm going to assume that when dl-server is finally accepted, this will no
longer be an issue for you?

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1699095159.git.bristot@kernel.org/

-- Steve