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Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

Posted Feb 15, 2012 23:24 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE by jengelh
Parent article: Linux support for ARM big.LITTLE

I think both statements are correct

1. the linux scheduler expects all available CPUs to have the same performance characteristics

and

2. even on commodity systems this isn't the case already.

ARM big.LITTLE is just a more extreme case of the existing problem.


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