Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:10:48 +0100 | From | Quentin Perret <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 08/14] sched/topology: Disable EAS on inappropriate platforms |
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On Wednesday 03 Oct 2018 at 18:27:19 (+0200), Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 10:13:03AM +0100, Quentin Perret wrote: > > @@ -288,6 +321,21 @@ static void build_perf_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map) > > goto free; > > tmp->next = pd; > > pd = tmp; > > + > > + /* > > + * Count performance domains and capacity states for the > > + * complexity check. > > + */ > > + nr_pd++; > > + nr_cs += em_pd_nr_cap_states(pd->obj); > > + } > > + > > + /* Bail out if the Energy Model complexity is too high. */ > > + if (nr_pd * (nr_cs + nr_cpus) > EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY) { > > + if (sched_debug()) > > + pr_info("rd %*pbl: EM complexity is too high\n ", > > + cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map)); > > + goto free; > > } > > I would make than an unconditional WARN, we do not really expect that to > trigger, but then it does, we really don't want to hide it.
OTOH that also means that some people with big asymmetric machines can get a WARN message every time they boot, and even if they don't want to use EAS.
Now, that shouldn't happen any time soon, so it's maybe a good thing if we get reports when/if people start to hit that one, so why not ...
Thanks, Quentin
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