From: Mark Brown broonie@linaro.org
Provide performance numbers to the scheduler to help it fill the cores in the system on big.LITTLE systems. With the current scheduler this may perform poorly for applications that try to do OpenMP style work over all cores but should help for more common workloads.
The power numbers are the same as for ARMv7 since it seems that the expected differential between the big and little cores is very similar on both ARMv7 and ARMv8. These numbers are just an initial and basic approximation for use with the current scheduler, it is likely that both experience with silicon and ongoing work on improving the scheduler will lead to further tuning. In both ARMv7 and ARMv8 cases the numbers were based on the published DMIPS numbers.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown broonie@linaro.org --- arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c index 1f086fc7665d..022ad0905a2a 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c @@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ struct cpu_efficiency { * use the default SCHED_POWER_SCALE value for cpu_scale. */ static const struct cpu_efficiency table_efficiency[] = { + { "arm,cortex-a57", 3891 }, + { "arm,cortex-a53", 2048 }, { NULL, }, };