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From: steve.muckle@linaro•org (Steve Muckle)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] CPUs capacity information for heterogeneous systems
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:25:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <569D3C35.5070703@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160118151316.GD7159@e106622-lin>

On 01/18/2016 07:13 AM, Juri Lelli wrote:
>> DT solves these issues and would be the perfect place for this - we are
>> > defining the compute capacity of a CPU which is a property of the
>> > hardware. However there are a couple things forcing us to compromise.
>> > One is that the amount and detail of information required to adequately
>> > capture the computational abilities of a CPU across all possible
>> > workloads seem onerous to collect and enumerate. The second is that even
>> > if we were willing to undertake that, CPU vendors probably won't be
>> > forthcoming with that information.
>> > 
>
> You mean because they won't publish performance data of their hw?

More specific things like IPC and other architectural details that could
comprise a precise physical definition of a CPU that would meet the
ideal goals of a device tree definition.

> But we already use per platform normalized values (as you are proposing
> below). So that a platform to platform comparison doesn't make sense.

Yeah I'm just advocating for that strategy here.

cheers,
Steve

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-08 14:09 [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] CPUs capacity information for heterogeneous systems Juri Lelli
2016-01-08 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: initialize cpu_scale to its default Juri Lelli
2016-01-08 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] drivers/cpufreq: implement init_cpu_capacity_default() Juri Lelli
2016-01-08 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] arm: Enable dynamic CPU capacity initialization Juri Lelli
2016-01-08 14:09 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: " Juri Lelli
2016-01-15 18:01 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] CPUs capacity information for heterogeneous systems Mark Brown
2016-01-18 15:01   ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-15 19:50 ` Steve Muckle
2016-01-18 15:13   ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-18 16:13     ` Vincent Guittot
2016-01-18 16:30       ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-18 16:42         ` Vincent Guittot
2016-01-18 17:08           ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-18 17:23             ` Vincent Guittot
2016-01-19 10:59           ` Catalin Marinas
2016-01-19 11:23             ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-19 14:29               ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-19 19:48                 ` Steve Muckle
2016-01-19 21:10                   ` Mark Brown
2016-01-20 10:22                     ` Juri Lelli
2016-01-18 19:25     ` Steve Muckle [this message]
2016-01-19 15:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-01-19 17:50   ` Mark Brown
2016-01-20 10:25     ` Juri Lelli

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