Re: Deadline scheduler inclusion in linux-linaro?

2013-05-17 Thread Pradeep Kathail
I believe before we merge these tress, we should do a good analysis and usecases for deadline scheduler? The networking issues are in dataplane where we want to reduce the latency and schedule dataplane thread ASAP. We also need to protect control plane at gross level, that probably can be done by

Re: Deadline scheduler inclusion in linux-linaro?

2013-05-17 Thread Patrick MacCartee
Will these be added in a way that makes them easy to remove? Many, >95% don't use Preempt RT in Linux as it impacts network performance and makes things very temperamental. You would think people would just disable this RT, but when trying to isolate issues it adds another variable to the mix. I b

Re: automated build coverage

2013-05-17 Thread Kevin Hilman
Fathi Boudra writes: [...] >> Is there a way for us (linaro folks) to see more of the Jenkins setup >> for these jobs (including the scripts.) There appears to be some useful >> add-ons being used. Read-only access to the detailed configuration of >> the jenkins jobs would be very useful. > > Y

big.LITTLE MP Scheduler test summary week-20

2013-05-17 Thread Naresh Kamboju
Hi, Week-20 test report big.LITTLE MP : Here is test result summary for big.LITTLE MP Scheduler test on TC2 platform with Android image sched_tests.git No of Test Cases Tests Run Tests Pass Tests Fail Absolute pass rate (%) Failure Analysis/Comments Regression 2019 19 0 1

big.LITTLE MP status May 14, 2013

2013-05-17 Thread Serge Broslavsky
https://wiki.linaro.org/projects/big.LITTLE.MP Work Items for functional completion: https://wiki.linaro.org/projects/big.LITTLE.MP/WorkItems Roadmap Cards: Epic big.LITTLE MP card - http://cards.linaro.org/browse/CARD-190 The card is being reworked to split the work that is completed a

Re: Cross-Compiling Qemu for Aarch64?

2013-05-17 Thread Wookey
+++ Peter Maydell [2013-05-17 11:19 +0100]: > > Making qemu easily cross-compilable is on my list anyway so lets have > > a look. Checking the debian package I find a build-deps list as long > > as your arm: > > Most of these are optional if you're just building > QEMU from a git source tree, as

Re: [PATCH 00/16] Support for per policy instance of Interactive governor

2013-05-17 Thread John Stultz
On 05/16/2013 09:18 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote: On 16 May 2013 22:58, John Stultz wrote: Do you have a git branch with the queue you just sent Todd available? It probably would be easiest to just merge that in. Yes I do have it. It is android-experimental-3.9 based. Can we merge that simply with l

Re: Deadline scheduler inclusion in linux-linaro?

2013-05-17 Thread Mark Orvek
The PREEMPT_RT patchset is configurable. I believe the default is PREEMPT_DESKTOP which is what most MV CGE customers use. Another config options is PREEMPT_NONE but I believe its usage is rare. Mark On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Patrick MacCartee wrote: > Will these be added in a way that

Re: Cross-Compiling Qemu for Aarch64?

2013-05-17 Thread Mian M. Hamayun
On 05/17/2013 12:19 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: On 17 May 2013 11:11, Wookey wrote: +++ Mian M. Hamayun [2013-05-16 14:25 +0200]: I am reposting the following message to linaro-dev as I am using the following linaro toolchain for ARM64 cross-compilation: https://wiki.linaro.org/HowTo/BuildArm64Ke

(review.)android.git.linaro.org has moved!

2013-05-17 Thread Philip Colmer
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Re: Deadline scheduler inclusion in linux-linaro?

2013-05-17 Thread Mike Holmes
In LNG you could end up with an interesting mix of preempt RT and deadline patches making the analysis and benchmarking interesting to interpret. In addition there are discussions about adding zero overhead linux (ZOL) like features. Mike On Friday, May 17, 2013 6:08:20 AM UTC-4, David Rusling

Re: Repo for Managing Git Repositories

2013-05-17 Thread Nicolas Dechesne
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Christopher Covington wrote: > >> I notice you've created a number of shell scripts to manage checking out > >> multiple git repositories, specific revisions of git repositories for a > >> release, etc. Repo [1] does this stuff pretty well that you might want > to

Re: [GIT PULL] big LITTLE MP - v17

2013-05-17 Thread Viresh Kumar
On 17 May 2013 16:01, Liviu Dudau wrote: > We are still waiting for some workload automation test results before we can > decide. Sorry I haven't replied yet to your other email, but we don't have > the bandwidth in ARM at the moment to run the tests, so it will fall into > your lap (or someone in

Re: [GIT PULL] big LITTLE MP - v17

2013-05-17 Thread Liviu Dudau
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 07:06:10AM +0100, Viresh Kumar wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > big LITTLE MP v17 is ready for you to pull. > > Updates: > --- > - Rebased over 3.10-rc1 > - Stats: Total distinct patches: 41 > - New Patches: > - master-wq-migration-v5: 5 (Already A

Re: Cross-Compiling Qemu for Aarch64?

2013-05-17 Thread Peter Maydell
On 17 May 2013 11:11, Wookey wrote: > +++ Mian M. Hamayun [2013-05-16 14:25 +0200]: >> I am reposting the following message to linaro-dev as I am using the >> following linaro toolchain for ARM64 cross-compilation: >> https://wiki.linaro.org/HowTo/BuildArm64Kernel >> >> In fact, I am trying to com

Re: Cross-Compiling Qemu for Aarch64?

2013-05-17 Thread Wookey
+++ Mian M. Hamayun [2013-05-16 14:25 +0200]: > Hello Everyone, > > I am reposting the following message to linaro-dev as I am using the > following linaro toolchain for ARM64 cross-compilation: > https://wiki.linaro.org/HowTo/BuildArm64Kernel > > In fact, I am trying to compile qemu for Aarch64

Re: Deadline scheduler inclusion in linux-linaro?

2013-05-17 Thread David Rusling
Amit,     an interesting proposal.  I think that most of the LNG steering committee is on this alias, but just in case, I'm adding them to it... Dave Amit Kucheria 17 May 2013 10:15 Hi all,As part of our investigations into the Linux scheduler we'veinteracted with Juri Le

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Miscellaneous bug fixes for HMP Reference Patches

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Redpath
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:57 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote: > You missed "lists." in linaro-dev address. > > On 16 May 2013 22:17, Chris Redpath wrote: > > Hi Viresh, this patch set contains 3 fixed for issues I've seen recently > > in the HMP reference patch set. Please would you be able to take them

Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: arm_big_little: route target residency to mcpm

2013-05-17 Thread Catalin Marinas
Hi Nico, On 16 May 2013 19:21, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2013, Liviu Dudau wrote: > >> From previous discussions between Achin, Charles and Nico I am aware >> that Nico has decided for the moment that target residency should be >> useful enough to be used by MCPM. That is because Nico

Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: arm_big_little: route target residency to mcpm

2013-05-17 Thread Liviu Dudau
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 07:21:55PM +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2013, Liviu Dudau wrote: > > > From previous discussions between Achin, Charles and Nico I am aware > > that Nico has decided for the moment that target residency should be > > useful enough to be used by MCPM. That

Deadline scheduler inclusion in linux-linaro?

2013-05-17 Thread Amit Kucheria
Hi all, As part of our investigations into the Linux scheduler we've interacted with Juri Lelli at the University of Pisa (cc'ed) who is part of a group that is working on a DEADLINE scheduler[1] for Linux[2]. While we're coming at this from a power managment angle[3], I suspect that LEG and LNG

Reminder: (review.)android.git.linaro.org is moving today!

2013-05-17 Thread Philip Colmer
This is a brief reminder that (review.)android.git.linaro.org will be unavailable from 2pm GMT+1 today while the Infrastructure and IT teams finish the work required to move the server from Canonical to Amazon EC2. There will be a further email sent after the work is completed. Regards Philip __