sched: Introduce SD_SHARE_CAP_STATES sched_domain flag
authorMorten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Tue, 13 Jan 2015 13:50:46 +0000 (13:50 +0000)
committerPunit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:34:30 +0000 (12:34 +0000)
commit4a51b7abe3de01d2cf09d85d65dd3aa8f73b2861
tree419b9bb625c3c1a02b07b0204066382b9a75c603
parentf1d6884d8ae852924811e88c700a42b76f50cb20
sched: Introduce SD_SHARE_CAP_STATES sched_domain flag

cpufreq is currently keeping it a secret which cpus are sharing
clock source. The scheduler needs to know about clock domains as well
to become more energy aware. The SD_SHARE_CAP_STATES domain flag
indicates whether cpus belonging to the sched_domain share capacity
states (P-states).

There is no connection with cpufreq (yet). The flag must be set by
the arch specific topology code.

cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/sched/core.c