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The state of the art in Linux scheduler handling of big.LITTLE hardware has moved through several different models, getting steadily better at getting best performance from the hardware (wikipedia has a good brief rundown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE). You're thinking about the in-kernel-scheduler approach, but global task scheduling (where you just tell the scheduler about all the cores and let it move processes around to suit) has been the recommended approach for a few years now I think.



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