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Add another member to the family of per-cpu sched_domain shortcut pointers. This one, sd_asym_cpucapacity, points to the lowest level at which the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is set. While at it, rename the sd_asym shortcut to sd_asym_packing to avoid confusions. Generally speaking, the largest opportunity to save energy via scheduling comes from a smarter exploitation of heterogeneous platforms (i.e. big.LITTLE). Consequently, the sd_asym_cpucapacity shortcut will be used at first as the lowest domain where Energy-Aware Scheduling (EAS) should be applied. For example, it is possible to apply EAS within a socket on a multi-socket system, as long as each socket has an asymmetric topology. Energy-aware cross-sockets wake-up balancing will only happen when the system is over-utilized, or this_cpu and prev_cpu are in different sockets. Suggested-by: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: adharmap@codeaurora.org Cc: chris.redpath@arm.com Cc: currojerez@riseup.net Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com Cc: edubezval@gmail.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: javi.merino@kernel.org Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org Cc: juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: patrick.bellasi@arm.com Cc: pkondeti@codeaurora.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: skannan@codeaurora.org Cc: smuckle@google.com Cc: srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com Cc: thara.gopinath@linaro.org Cc: tkjos@google.com Cc: valentin.schneider@arm.com Cc: vincent.guittot@linaro.org Cc: viresh.kumar@linaro.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203095628.11858-7-quentin.perret@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.