Skip to content
  • Daniel Lezcano's avatar
    thermal/drivers/cpu_cooling: Introduce the cpu idle cooling driver · 01907da6
    Daniel Lezcano authored
    
    
    The cpu idle cooling driver performs synchronized idle injection across all
    cpus belonging to the same cluster and offers a new method to cool down a SoC.
    
    Each cluster has its own idle cooling device, each core has its own idle
    injection thread, each idle injection thread uses play_idle to enter idle.  In
    order to reach the deepest idle state, each cooling device has the idle
    injection threads synchronized together.
    
    It has some similarity with the intel power clamp driver but it is actually
    designed to work on the ARM architecture via the DT with a mathematical proof
    with the power model which comes with the Documentation.
    
    The idle injection cycle is fixed while the running cycle is variable. That
    allows to have control on the device reactivity for the user experience. At
    the mitigation point the idle threads are unparked, they play idle the
    specified amount of time and they schedule themselves. The last thread sets
    the next idle injection deadline and when the timer expires it wakes up all
    the threads which in turn play idle again. Meanwhile the running cycle is
    changed by set_cur_state.  When the mitigation ends, the threads are parked.
    The algorithm is self adaptive, so there is no need to handle hotplugging.
    
    If we take an example of the balanced point, we can use the DT for the hi6220.
    
    The sustainable power for the SoC is 3326mW to mitigate at 75°C. Eight cores
    running at full blast at the maximum OPP consumes 5280mW. The first value is
    given in the DT, the second is calculated from the OPP with the formula:
    
       Pdyn = Cdyn x Voltage^2 x Frequency
    
    As the SoC vendors don't want to share the static leakage values, we assume
    it is zero, so the Prun = Pdyn + Pstatic = Pdyn + 0 = Pdyn.
    
    In order to reduce the power to 3326mW, we have to apply a ratio to the
    running time.
    
    ratio = (Prun - Ptarget) / Ptarget = (5280 - 3326) / 3326 = 0,5874
    
    We know the idle cycle which is fixed, let's assume 10ms. However from this
    duration we have to substract the wake up latency for the cluster idle state.
    In our case, it is 1.5ms. So for a 10ms latency for idle, we are really idle
    8.5ms.
    
    As we know the idle duration and the ratio, we can compute the running cycle.
    
       running_cycle = 8.5 / 0.5874 = 14.47ms
    
    So for 8.5ms of idle, we have 14.47ms of running cycle, and that brings the
    SoC to the balanced trip point of 75°C.
    
    The driver has been tested on the hi6220 and it appears the temperature
    stabilizes at 75°C with an idle injection time of 10ms (8.5ms real) and
    running cycle of 14ms as expected by the theory above.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Wangtao <kevin.wangtao@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
    01907da6