Thread and/or virtual machine scheduling for cores with diverse capabilities

A method for computing, comprising:

• retrieving or receiving, by a scheduler of an operating system or a virtual machine monitor of a computing device, capabilities of a plurality of cores of one or more multi-core processors of the computing device, from respective designated control registers of the cores, wherein at least two of the plurality of cores have different capabilities;
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• forming, by the scheduler or the virtual machine monitor, a plurality of capability ordered core sets, with at least a first and a second core set, based at least in part on the capabilities of the cores, where the first core set having N cores is collectively more capable than the second core set having N-1 cores, N being an integer greater than 2, and the first and second core sets having at least one common core;
• scheduling, by the scheduler, a plurality of execution threads for execution on selected ones of the capability ordered core sets, based at least in part on the capabilities of the core sets and characteristics of the plurality of execution threads, or scheduling, by the virtual machine monitor, a plurality of virtual machines of the computing device for execution on selected ones of the capability ordered core sets, based at least in part on the capabilities of the core sets and priorities of the virtual machines.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that cause a computing device, in response to execution of the instructions by one or more of a plurality of cores of one or more multi-core processors of the computing device, to provide a scheduler of an operating system or a virtual machine monitor to the computing device;

• wherein at least two of the plurality of cores have different capabilities;
• wherein the scheduler is to retrieve capabilities of the cores, from respective designated control registers of the cores, and schedule a plurality of execution threads for execution on selected ones of a first plurality of capability ordered core sets, based at least in part on the capabilities of the first core sets and characteristics of the plurality of execution threads;
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• wherein the virtual machine monitor is to retrieve capabilities of the cores, and schedule a plurality of virtual machines of the computing device for execution on selected ones of a second plurality of capability ordered core sets, based at least in part on the capabilities of the second core sets and respective priorities of the virtual machines;
• wherein the scheduler or the virtual machine monitor on retrieval of the capabilities of the cores, is to form the first or second plurality of capability ordered core sets, with at least a first and a second core set, based at least in part on the capabilities of the cores, where the first core set having N cores is collectively more capable than the second core set having N-1 cores, N being an integer greater than 2, and the first and second core set having at least one common core.