Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] acpi: processor_driver: register cooling device per package

2016-05-17 Thread Srinivas Pandruvada
On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 23:19 -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote: > The current throttling strategy is to apply cooling levels > on all processors in a package. Therefore, if one cooling > device is requested to cap the frequency, the same request > is applied to all sibling processors in the same package

[RFC PATCH 1/1] acpi: processor_driver: register cooling device per package

2016-05-12 Thread Eduardo Valentin
The current throttling strategy is to apply cooling levels on all processors in a package. Therefore, if one cooling device is requested to cap the frequency, the same request is applied to all sibling processors in the same package. For this reason, this patch removes the redundant cooling device