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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [patch] sched: group CPU power setup cleanup
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Paul Jackson writes:

> My understanding is that the "cpu_power" of the cpus in a sched group
> is rougly proportional to the BogoMIPS of the CPUs in that group.

Uh oh, on powerpc the bogomips has nothing at all to do with the speed
of the cpu, but relates instead to the frequency at which the timebase
register counts...

Paul.