[PATCH v4 0/5] ARM: topology: set the capacity of each cores for big.LITTLE

[Vincent Guittot]

On 10 July 2012 13:27, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 11:27 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> This patchset creates an arch_scale_freq_power function for ARM, which is used
>> to set the relative capacity of each core of a big.LITTLE system. It also removes
>> the broken power estimation of x86.
>>
>> Modification since v3:
>>  - Add comments
>>  - Add optimization for SMP system
>>  - Ensure that capacity of a CPU will be at most 1
>>
>> Modification since v2:
>>  - set_power_scale function becomes static
>>  - Rework loop in update_siblings_masks
>>  - Remove useless code in parse_dt_topology
>>
>> Modification since v1:
>>  - Add and update explanation about the use of the table and the range of the value
>>  - Remove the use of NR_CPUS and use nr_cpu_ids instead
>>  - Remove broken power estimation of x86
>>
>> Peter Zijlstra (1):
>>   sched, x86: Remove broken power estimation
>
> Note that this patch already made its way into tip as commit
> bcae21d6e793a7047d38abc9ac0946c53733c1dd so it might be best to base
> whatever tree this is supposed to fo into on something that includes
> that.
>

yes

>> Vincent Guittot (4):
>>   ARM: topology: Add arch_scale_freq_power function
>>   ARM: topology: factorize the update of sibling masks
>>   ARM: topology: Update cpu_power according to DT information
>>   sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER
>
> How would you like to proceed with these patches, I'm fine with them
> going through the ARM tree..

May be the last one which enable ARCH_POWER should also go into tip ?

>
> In which case:
>
> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
>
> Ingo, Russell, any other preferences?

I'm going to push the patches related to ARM into Russell's patch system

Vincent