[PATCH v5 1/8] Documentation: arm: define DT cpu capacity-dmips-mhz bindings

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Jun 15 07:04:47 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:17:50AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:

> +CPU capacities are obtained by running a suitable benchmark. This binding makes
> +no aspersions on the validity or suitability of any particular benchmark, the
> +final capacity should, however, be:

Makes no guarantees.  An aspersion is an insult!

> +CPU capacities are obtained by running the Dhrystone benchmark on each CPU at
> +max frequency. The obtained DMIPS score is then divided by the frequency (in
> +MHz) at which the benchmark has been run, so that DMIPS/MHz are obtained.
> +Such values are then normalized w.r.t. the highest score obtained in the
> +system.

Perhaps worth mentioning that caches and so on should be enabled (based
on previous experience with people doing bringup)?
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