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The Linux thread scheduler already knows how to do this, which is why ARM's big.LITTLE architecture works fine in Android phones. There's zero reason MS couldn
by seabrookmx 8y ago
The Linux thread scheduler already knows how to do this, which is why ARM's big.LITTLE architecture works fine in Android phones.
There's zero reason MS couldn't implement this in Windows. In fact, it might already be done giving HP and others are currently shipping Windows on Snapdragon devices.
- foobarbazetc 8y agoI hadn’t looked at the sched code in a couple of years. Is this article up to date: https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/ten-things-to-know-about-big-little https://community.arm.com/processors/b/blog/posts/ten-things... ?
- seabrookmx 8y agoI believe that patch referenced in the article for "global task scheduling" that allows you to use both the big and little cores at once is now in the mainline kernel. But I don't recall where I read this so apply a few grains of salt to my comment.