Control heat dissipation with cooling devices

The performance of some components can be adjusted to reduce heat dissipation. These components are considered as cooling devices. The CPU cores are cooling devices as their performance can be lowered to reduce heat dissipation. For more information about cooling devices, see index: kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git. Use the following sysfs commands to read information about cooling devices: Note <x> in the table represents cooling device ID. Table : Description of commands for cooling devices

Commands	Description
ls /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device*	Lists all cooling devices and their IDs that the device contains
cat /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device<x>/type	Provides the name of the cooling device
cat /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device<x>/cur_state	Reads the existing mitigation state of the cooling device
cat /sys/class/thermal/cooling_device<x>/max_state	Reads the maximum supported mitigation state of the cooling device

For available CPU cooling devices for all supported platforms, see Platform Support - Thermal Management.

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