A method includes generating temperature information from a plurality of temperature sensors within a computing device, wherein a first one of the temperature sensors is physically located at a first processing unit of the computing device; processing the temperature information to identify that the first temperature sensor is associated with temperature that is at or above a threshold; and assigning a processing thread to a first core of a plurality of cores of a second processing unit in response to identifying that the first temperature sensor is associated with temperature that is at or above the threshold and based at least in part on a physical distance between the first core and the first temperature sensor.