Re: [RFC 3/4] ARM: topology: Update cpu_power according to DT information

From: Vincent Guittot
Date: Wed Jun 13 2012 - 10:31:32 EST


On 13 June 2012 15:32, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:29 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> In fact, there is 2 tracks, one for a power aware scheduler and one
>> for setting the capacity of each core of a big.LITTLE system. This
>> patch is for the latter and is not directly link to the power because
>> the default/performance mode of the scheduler should also take
>> advantage of this information
>
> Fair enough.. can you include a little blurp in the changelog on how
> this affects the capacity stuff for big.little and if that works as
> desired due to these patches?

OK, I will add explanations about how this affect the cpu_power field
and the load balance of a big.LITTLE system, what is enhanced with
this modification and what is not.


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