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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/cpu-idle-cooling.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/cpu-idle-cooling.rst index b9f34ceb2a38..c2a7ca676853 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/cpu-idle-cooling.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/thermal/cpu-idle-cooling.rst @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + ================ CPU Idle Cooling ================ @@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ idle state target residency, we lead to dropping the static and the dynamic leakage for this period (modulo the energy needed to enter this state). So the sustainable power with idle cycles has a linear relation with the OPP’s sustainable power and can be computed with a -coefficient similar to: +coefficient similar to:: Power(IdleCycle) = Coef x Power(OPP) @@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ Power considerations -------------------- When we reach the thermal trip point, we have to sustain a specified -power for a specific temperature but at this time we consume: +power for a specific temperature but at this time we consume:: Power = Capacitance x Voltage^2 x Frequency x Utilisation @@ -148,7 +150,7 @@ wrong in the system setup). The ‘Capacitance’ and ‘Utilisation’ are a fixed value, ‘Voltage’ and the ‘Frequency’ are fixed artificially because we don’t want to change the OPP. We can group the ‘Capacitance’ and the ‘Utilisation’ into a single term which is the -‘Dynamic Power Coefficient (Cdyn)’ Simplifying the above, we have: +‘Dynamic Power Coefficient (Cdyn)’ Simplifying the above, we have:: Pdyn = Cdyn x Voltage^2 x Frequency @@ -157,7 +159,7 @@ in order to target the sustainable power defined in the device tree. So with the idle injection mechanism, we want an average power (Ptarget) resulting in an amount of time running at full power on a specific OPP and idle another amount of time. That could be put in a -equation: +equation:: P(opp)target = ((Trunning x (P(opp)running) + (Tidle x P(opp)idle)) / (Trunning + Tidle) @@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ equation: At this point if we know the running period for the CPU, that gives us the idle injection we need. Alternatively if we have the idle -injection duration, we can compute the running duration with: +injection duration, we can compute the running duration with:: Trunning = Tidle / ((P(opp)running / P(opp)target) - 1) @@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ However, in this demonstration we ignore three aspects: target residency, otherwise we end up consuming more energy and potentially invert the mitigation effect -So the final equation is: +So the final equation is:: Trunning = (Tidle - Twakeup ) x (((P(opp)dyn + P(opp)static ) - P(opp)target) / P(opp)target ) |