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Quentin Perret committed b68a4c0dba3
sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) in its current form is most relevant on platforms with asymmetric CPU topologies (e.g. Arm big.LITTLE) since this is where there is a lot of potential for saving energy through scheduling. This is particularly true since the Energy Model only includes the active power costs of CPUs, hence not providing enough data to compare packing-vs-spreading strategies. As such, disable EAS on root domains where the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is not set. While at it, disable EAS on systems where the complexity of the Energy Model is too high since that could lead to unacceptable scheduling overhead. All in all, EAS can be used on a root domain if and only if: 1. an Energy Model is available; 2. the root domain has an asymmetric CPU capacity topology; 3. the complexity of the root domain's EM is low enough to keep scheduling overheads low. 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: morten.rasmussen@arm.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/20181203095628.11858-8-quentin.perret@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>