On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 4:22 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ThermalManagementWS > > == Summary == > Better thermal management and peak performance on Intel CPUs by > including thermald in the default install. > > == Owner == > * Name: [[User:benzea| Benjamin Berg]] > * Email: bb...@redhat.com > > * Name: [[User:ckellner| Christian J. Kellner]] > * Email: ckell...@redhat.com > * Product: Workstation > * Responsible WG: Workstation > > == Detailed Description == > > Modern Intel-based systems provide sensors and methods to monitor and > control temperature of its CPUs. The Thermal daemon will use those > sensors to monitor the temperature and use the best available method > to keep the CPU in the right temperature envelop. On certain systems > this is needed to reach the maximal performance. For optimal > performance a per-model thermald configuration should be created, this > can either be done by using dptfxtract (available from rpmfusion) or > we could ship static configuration files for a set of known models.
So what are we going to do about this in F32? Are we going to create configuration files or we will provide some page how to create it yourself? Does Intel provide one? > For a more details explanation please consult Intel's > [https://01.org/linux-thermal-daemon/documentation/introduction-thermal-daemon > introduction] to thermald. > > == Benefit to Fedora == > > Better out-of-the-box experience due to improved cooling methods and > performance on Intel systems. > > == Scope == > * Proposal owners: > - Include the thermald package in the default Workstation install > - Optionally provide patches for thermald to be able to read hardware > specific configuration data > - Optionally collect hardware specific configuration data and ship it > > * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) > * Release engineering: > * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) > * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) > > == Upgrade/compatibility impact == > N/A (not a System Wide Change) > > == How To Test == > > Install the packages and use e.g. turbostat to monitor the > performance. Improvements may only be visible if the non-free > dptfxtract package is also installed. So what is the point of a change if improvements are visible only if non-free package is installed? > == User Experience == > - Better performance on certain hardware > - Better cooling of CPUs on certain hardware > > -- > Ben Cotton > He / Him / His > Fedora Program Manager > Red Hat > TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis > _______________________________________________ > devel-announce mailing list -- devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-announce-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
