Use cpu compatibility field and clock-frequency field of DT to
estimate the capacity of each core of the system and to update
the cpu_power field accordingly.
This patch enables to put more running tasks on big cores than
on LITTLE ones. But this patch doesn't ensure that long running
tasks will run on big cores and short ones on LITTLE cores.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This factorization has also been proposed in another patch that has not been
merged yet:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-January/080873.html
So, this patch could be dropped depending of the state of the other one.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add infrastructure to be able to modify the cpu_power of each core
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
kernel/sched.c:7354:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Align cpu_coregroup_mask prototype interface with sched_domain_mask_f typedef
use int cpu instead of unsigned int cpu
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The affinity between ARM processors is defined in the MPIDR register.
We can identify which processors are in the same cluster,
and which ones have performance interdependency. We can define the
cpu topology of ARM platform, that is then used by sched_mc and sched_smt.
The default state of sched_mc and sched_smt config is disable.
When enabled, the behavior of the scheduler can be modified with
sched_mc_power_savings and sched_smt_power_savings sysfs interfaces.
Changes since v4 :
* Remove unnecessary parentheses and blank lines
Changes since v3 :
* Update the format of printk message
* Remove blank line
Changes since v2 :
* Update the commit message and some comments
Changes since v1 :
* Update the commit message
* Add read_cpuid_mpidr in arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h
* Modify header of arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
* Modify tests and manipulation of MPIDR's bitfields
* Modify the place and dependancy of the config
* Modify Noop functions
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Vincent Guittot