ENERGY AWARE SCHEDULING Posts on XDA

How EAS helps make the Google Pixel the fastest Android phone

Adam Conway June 30, 2018

Far back in the past when Linux was just an idea in the mind of Linus Torvalds, CPUs were single-core entities which required an immense amount of energy for little power. The first ever commercially available processor, the Intel 4004, ran at a clock-rate of 740kHz on a single core. Back then, there was no need...

CarbonROM Update Brings Energy Aware Scheduling to the Nextbit Robin

Mishaal Rahman July 30, 2017

Ever since Google hopped on to the Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) feature train, developers on our forums have been working hard to bring this feature to the devices they support. The feature optimizes energy consumption for multi-core SoCs, and it requires significant kernel patches to get it working. The advantages of EAS are described in...