Heterogeneous Multi-Processing
Questions tagged [hmp]
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How is Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) scheduling implemented in Linux Kernel (Samsung Exynos5422)?
Does anybody know how Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) scheduling is implemented in the Linux kernel scheduler?
This has been implemented in the kernel supplied with the ODROID-XU3 board.
(https://github.com/hardkernel/linux.git -b…
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How is cache coherency maintained on ARMv8 big.LITTLE system?
As far as I know, big cores and little cores are in separate clusters on big.LITTLE system. And cache coherence between clusters requires the regions are marked as Outer Shareable and is very expensive. I have checked the Linux kernel code, and…
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Is therea way to count high-performance cores on heterogenous multicore CPUs
In a Heterogeneous MultiProcessing model, the different cores of a CPU or SoC don't have the same performance profiles. While HMP systems first got deployed a while ago (the wiki mentions Samsung started using this model back in 2013), they are…
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