ANDROID: sched/fair: Energy-aware wake-up task placement
When the systems is not overutilized, place waking tasks on the most energy efficient cpu. Previous attempts reduced the search space by matching task utilization to cpu capacity before consulting the energy model as this is an expensive operation. The search heuristics didn't work very well and lacking any better alternatives this patch takes the brute-force route and tries all potential targets. This approach doesn't scale, but it might be sufficient for many embedded applications while work is continuing on a heuristic that can minimize the necessary computations. The heuristic must be derrived from the platform energy model rather than make additional assumptions, such lower capacity implies better energy efficiency. PeterZ mentioned in the past that we might be able to derrive some simpler deciding functions using mathematical (modal?) analysis. Signed-off-by:Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Change-Id: I424e72ab15529e45e8788d109823ae0f6de0d97f Signed-off-by:
Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@arm.com>
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