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Message-ID: <20181123100441.nlapxupdcqehwj6m@vireshk-i7>
Date:   Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:34:41 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:     rjw@...ysocki.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Chris Redpath <chris.redpath@...aro.org>,
        Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@...aro.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@...aro.org>,
        Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] base/drivers/arch_topology: Default dmips-mhz if
 they are not set in DT

On 22-11-18, 13:36, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> In the case of asymmetric SoC with the same micro-architecture, we
> have a group of CPUs with smaller OPPs than the other group. One
> example is the 96boards dragonboard 820c. There is no dmips/MHz
> difference between both groups, so no need to specify the values in
> the DT. Unfortunately, without these defined, there is no scaling
> capacity computation triggered, so we need to write
> 'capacity-dmips-mhz' for each CPU with the same value in order to
> force the scaled capacity computation.
> 
> Fix this by setting a default capacity to SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE, if no
> 'capacity-dmips-mhz' is defined in the DT.

We aren't doing this anymore. You should rather explain that we just
allocate raw_capacity now and rest is left for
init_cpu_capacity_callback() to fix.

-- 
viresh

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