arm: Cpu invariant scheduler load-tracking and capacity support
authorDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:57:19 +0000 (13:57 +0100)
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:18:50 +0000 (14:48 +0530)
commit58342bc498f2450e02a2e1aafc28bb8cdf59b5cf
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parente2cee0c2f0656074fbda9c2f0fe013419fde47e5
arm: Cpu invariant scheduler load-tracking and capacity support

Provides the scheduler with a cpu scaling correction factor for more
accurate load-tracking and cpu capacity handling.

The Energy Model (EM) (in fact the capacity value of the last element
of the capacity states vector of the core (MC) level sched_group_energy
structure) is used instead of the arm arch specific cpu_efficiency and
dtb property 'clock-frequency' values as the source for this cpu
scaling factor.

The cpu capacity value depends on the micro-architecture and the
maximum frequency of the cpu.

The maximum frequency part should not be confused with the frequency
invariant scheduler load-tracking support which deals with frequency
related scaling due to DFVS functionality.

Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
arch/arm/kernel/topology.c