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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:42:52 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] sched/topology: remove smt_gain
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 03:08:38PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote:
> It was hard to track the history of this and *why* it's needed.

Yeah, my bad..

So at some point I wanted to do dynamic capacity and dynamic smt gain by
using the x86 APERF/MPERF stuff. But it never quite worked and we got
stuck with the remnants.