Energy-aware scheduling on asymmetric systems

james — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:05:20 +0000

This algorithm is only enabled on asymmetric systems, which minimizes that cost because such systems (currently) have a maximum of eight CPUs.

For what it's worth, MediaTek has several ten-core mobile SoCs with three performance domains: fast A7x, medium speed A53, and efficient (slow) A53 or A35 cores.

Which makes virtually no difference to the article, not least because MediaTek have had difficulty selling these, so they're concentrating on the low end of the market where they can sell on value. So it's highly unlikely these chips will ever run the patch set in question.

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