The ARM platforms take advantage of packing small tasks on few cores. This is true even when the cores of a cluster can't be power gated independantly. So we clear SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN at MC and CPU level.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot vincent.guittot@linaro.org Reviewed-by: Morten Rasmussen morten.rasmussen@arm.com --- arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c index 79282eb..f89a4a2 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c @@ -201,6 +201,15 @@ static inline void update_cpu_power(unsigned int cpuid, unsigned int mpidr) {} */ struct cputopo_arm cpu_topology[NR_CPUS];
+int arch_sd_local_flags(int level) +{ + /* Powergate at threading level doesn't make sense */ + if (level & SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER) + return 1*SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN; + + return 0*SD_SHARE_POWERDOMAIN; +} + const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu) { return &cpu_topology[cpu].core_sibling;