On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:49:44PM +0800, KelvinKLi@via-alliance.com wrote:
Another questions:
In Arm V8 Architecture Reference Manual,there is an example (see beblow) to explain the shareability attribute of clusters. It is easy to know: each cluster is corresponding to a Inner shareable domain; the two cluster comprise a Outer shareable domain.
The ARM ARM describes the architectural requirements for a system to be able to work correctly. Specific implementations can add further abilities within the scope of this. And Linux can then have additional requirements for how to enable SMP/HMP..
So, how does the big.LITTLE HMP system treat two clusters as a Inner shareable domain?
Example for Cortex-A53: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0500d/ch07s02...
Regards,
Leif