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The Energy Model (EM) supports devices which report abstract power scale, not only real Watts. The primary goal for EM is to enable the Energy Aware Scheduler (EAS) for a given platform. Some of the platforms might not be able to deliver proper power values. The only information that they might have is the relative efficiency between CPU types. Thus, it makes sense to remove some restrictions in the EM framework and introduce a mechanism which would support those platforms. What is crucial for EAS to operate is the 'cost' field in the EM. The 'cost' is calculated internally in EM framework based on knowledge from 'power' values. The 'cost' values must be strictly increasing. The existing API with its 'power' value size restrictions cannot guarantee that the 'cost' will meet this requirement. Since the platform is missing this detailed information, but has only efficiency details, introduce a new custom callback in the EM framework. The new callback would allow to provide the 'cost' values which reflect efficiency of the CPUs. This would allow to provide EAS information which has different relation than what would be forced by the EM internal formulas calculating 'cost' values. Thanks to this new callback it is possible to create a system view for EAS which has no overlapping performance states across many Performance Domains. Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.