Re: Fedora 32 Self-Contained Change proposal: Better Thermal Management for the Workstation

[Vít Ondruch]

This sounds interesting, but this tool is probably coming late into play
to fix early boot thermal throttling issues such as:


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1598615


Vít


Dne 23. 09. 19 v 16:19 Ben Cotton napsal(a):
>  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: bberg(a)redhat.com
>
>  * Name: [[User:ckellner| Christian J. Kellner]]
>  * Email: ckellner(a)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.
>
>  For a more details explanation please consult Intel's
>  [https://01.org/linux-thermal-daemon/documentation/introduction-thermal-da...
>  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.
>
>  == User Experience ==
>   - Better performance on certain hardware
>   - Better cooling of CPUs on certain hardware
>