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Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 0498af567f70..0a97d85568b2 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -492,8 +492,21 @@ config HAVE_SCHED_AVG_IRQ depends on SMP config SCHED_THERMAL_PRESSURE - bool "Enable periodic averaging of thermal pressure" + bool depends on SMP + depends on CPU_FREQ_THERMAL + help + Select this option to enable thermal pressure accounting in the + scheduler. Thermal pressure is the value conveyed to the scheduler + that reflects the reduction in CPU compute capacity resulted from + thermal throttling. Thermal throttling occurs when the performance of + a CPU is capped due to high operating temperatures. + + If selected, the scheduler will be able to balance tasks accordingly, + i.e. put less load on throttled CPUs than on non/less throttled ones. + + This requires the architecture to implement + arch_set_thermal_pressure() and arch_get_thermal_pressure(). config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT bool "BSD Process Accounting" |