Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Srikar Dronamraju <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 1/2] sched/topology: Allow archs to override cpu_smt_mask | Date | Fri, 7 Aug 2020 13:15:16 +0530 |
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cpu_smt_mask tracks topology_sibling_cpumask. This would be good for most architectures. One of the users of cpu_smt_mask(), would be to identify idle-cores. On Power9, a pair of SMT4 cores can be presented by the firmware as a SMT8 core for backward compatibility reasons.
Powerpc allows LPARs to be live migrated from Power8 to Power9. Do note Power8 had only SMT8 cores. Existing software which has been developed/configured for Power8 would expect to see SMT8 core. Maintaining the illusion of SMT8 core is a requirement to make that work.
In order to maintain above userspace backward compatibility with previous versions of processor, Power9 onwards there is option to the firmware to advertise a pair of SMT4 cores as a fused cores aka SMT8 core. On Power9 this pair shares the L2 cache as well. However, from the scheduler's point of view, a core should be determined by SMT4, since its a completely independent unit of compute. Hence allow PowerPc architecture to override the default cpu_smt_mask() to point to the SMT4 cores in a SMT8 mode.
This will ensure the scheduler is always given the right information.
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by; Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- Changelog v1->v2: Update the commit msg based on the discussion in community esp with Peter Zijlstra and Michael Ellerman.
include/linux/topology.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h index 608fa4aadf0e..ad03df1cc266 100644 --- a/include/linux/topology.h +++ b/include/linux/topology.h @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static inline int cpu_to_mem(int cpu) #define topology_die_cpumask(cpu) cpumask_of(cpu) #endif -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT +#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_SMT) && !defined(cpu_smt_mask) static inline const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu) { return topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu); -- 2.18.2
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