Re: [RFC 4/4] sched: cpu_power: enable ARCH_POWER

Vincent Guittot
2012-06-13T13:20:55Z

On 13 June 2012 14:50, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:02 +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>> Heteregeneous ARM platform uses arch_scale_freq_power function
>> to reflect the relative capacity of each core
>
> I think I've pointed out before that this breaks x86.. you need a patch
> killing at that stuff before this.

In v3.4, x86 hasn't got any specific declaration for
arch_scale_freq_power so it would now use the weak
arch_scale_freq_power which calls default_scale_freq_power. Isn't it
enough ?

>
>> Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  kernel/sched/features.h |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/features.h b/kernel/sched/features.h
>> index de00a48..d98ae90 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/features.h
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/features.h
>> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ SCHED_FEAT(CACHE_HOT_BUDDY, true)
>>  /*
>>   * Use arch dependent cpu power functions
>>   */
>> -SCHED_FEAT(ARCH_POWER, false)
>> +SCHED_FEAT(ARCH_POWER, true)
>>
>>  SCHED_FEAT(HRTICK, false)
>>  SCHED_FEAT(DOUBLE_TICK, false)
>