On: Intel’s Thread Director: Assisting the OS to make task placement decisions

[Thev00d00]

Android phones have had big.LITTLE a while now, you would hope that scheduler support has matured in that time.

[bitL → Thev00d00]

Android phones don't have real multitasking; SailfishOS might be a better example.

[vbezhenar → bitL]

Android phones run real Linux kernel with real multitasking. How multitasking exposed in UI is a different question.

[bitL → vbezhenar]

That's a bit like saying "your car has 5 gears but you can only use the first one". In practice you have 1 gear.

[detaro → bitL]

No, that doesn't make any sense.

The system and apps on it make use of multiple cores, that's all that matters for the scheduling point.