[RFC 1/4] ARM: topology: Add arch_scale_freq_power function
From: Jean Pihet <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-13 08:51:03
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Hi Vincent, On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Vincent Guittot [off-list ref] wrote:
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Add infrastructure to be able to modify the cpu_power of each core Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> --- ?arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h | ? ?2 ++ ?arch/arm/kernel/topology.c ? ? ?| ? 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- ?2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h index 58b8b84..78e4c85 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h@@ -27,11 +27,13 @@ void init_cpu_topology(void);?void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid); ?const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu); +void set_power_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long power); ?#else ?static inline void init_cpu_topology(void) { } ?static inline void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid) { } +static inline void set_power_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long power) { } ?#endif ?#include <asm-generic/topology.h>diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c index 8200dea..00301a7 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c@@ -22,6 +22,35 @@?#include <asm/cputype.h> ?#include <asm/topology.h> +/* + * cpu power scale management + */ + +/* + * cpu power table + * This per cpu data structure describes the relative capacity of each core. + * On a heteregenous system, cores don't have the same computation capacity + * and we reflect that difference in the cpu_power field so the scheduler can + * take this difference into account for load balance. A per cpu structure is + * preferred because each cpu is mainly using its own cpu_power even it's not + * always true because of nohz_idle_balance
The end of the comment is unclear IMO; Can you give more details on the relation between cpu_power and nohz_idle_balance? Regards, Jean