On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:23 PM, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can someone please enlighten me as to the current state >> of Linux and asymmetric multiprocessing ? A number of >> ARM SoCs on the market include both high performance >> and low power cores. >> >> Does Linux have a strategy for scheduling to these >> asymmetric processing units yet ? > > Presumable you're referring to the general cores like the Tegra3 and > not some of the supplemental cores like on the OMAP devices for media > processing?
I'm referring to cores running the same instruction set, but with widely varying processing speeds (OMAP 5, Marvell PXA2128, i.e. ARM big.LITTLE). wad > Support for the Tegra 3 core landed in 3.4, Linaro is > working on the arm big.LITTLE Cortex A15/A7 support. There's a two > phase approach to this, I thing there's a couple of articles on LWN > about the direction they are taking. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
