linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] dt-binding: arm/cpus.txt: fix dynamic-power-coefficient unit

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Message-ID: <20180925164441.GA21659@bogus>
Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:44:41 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     mark.rutland@....com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        punit.agrawal@....com, edubezval@...il.com,
        viresh.kumar@...aro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dt-binding: arm/cpus.txt: fix
 dynamic-power-coefficient unit

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:08:38AM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> The unit of dynamic-power-coefficient is described as mW/MHz/uV^2 whereas
> its usage in the code assumes that unit is uW/MHz/V^2
> 
> In drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c, the code is :
> 
> power = (u64)capacitance * freq_mhz * voltage_mv * voltage_mv;
> do_div(power, 1000000000);
> 
> which can be summarized as :
> power (mW) = capacitance * freq_mhz/1000 * (voltage_mv/1000)^2
> or
> power (mW) = (capacitance * freq_mhz * (voltage_mv/1000)^2) / 1000
> then
> power (mW) = power (uW) / 1000
> so
> power (uW) = capacitance * freq_mhz * (voltage_mv/1000)^2
> 
> Furthermore, if we test basic values like :
> voltage_mv = 1000mV = 1V
> freq_mhz = 1000Mhz
> 
> The minimum possible power, when dynamic-power-coefficient equals 1, will
> be with current unit:
> min power = 1 * 1000  * (1000000)^2 = 10^15 mW
> which is not realistic
> 
> With the unit used by the code, the min power is
> min power =  1 * 1000 * 1^2 = 1000uW = 1mW which is far more realistic
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

Rob