Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: rk3399: Add capacity-dmips-mhz attributes

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Am Samstag, 2. März 2019, 14:10:30 CET schrieb Marc Zyngier:
> The RK3399 has the interesting property to be a so called "big-little"
> system, where not all the CPUs are equal (the A53s are much weaker
> than the A72s).
> 
> So far, we're not telling the OS that there is such a difference in
> processing capacity, and Linux assumes that they are equal. Too bad.
> 
> Let's tell the OS about this by using the capacity-dmips-mhz
> property. The values used here are those used on the Juno platform,
> which is quite similar. This leads to the scheduler knowing that
> it can pack more tasks on the A72s, and leads to a better interactive
> experience.
> 
> Tested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>

Subject "arm64: dts: rockchip: foobar on rk3399" for the future please :-)
I've fixed that up and applied the patch for 5.2

Thanks
Heiko



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