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Better Thermal Management for the Workstation
Summary
Better thermal management and peak performance on Intel CPUs by including thermald and dptfxtract in the default install.
Owner
- Name: Benjamin Berg
- Email: bberg@redhat.com
- Name: Christian J. Kellner
- Email: ckellner@redhat.com
- Product: Workstation
- Responsible WG: Workstation
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 31
- Last updated: 2019-07-24
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
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 a more details explanation please consult Intel's 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 - Package the dptfxtract tool - 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.
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
User Experience
- Better performance on certain hardware - Better cooling of CPUs on certain hardware
Dependencies
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: Don't ship both packages by default
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
- Blocks product? product
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)