On 24 January 2013 08:36, Alex Shi alex.shi@intel.com wrote:

Since the runnable info needs 345ms to accumulate, balancing doesn't do well for many tasks burst waking. After talking with Mike Galbraith, we are agree to just use runnable avg in power friendly scheduling and keep current instant load in performance scheduling for low latency.

So the biggest change in this version is removing runnable load avg in balance and just using runnable data in power balance.

Pushed as power-aware-scheduling-v4 at:

http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=arm/big.LITTLE/mp.git%3Ba=summary