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SubjectRE: [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] scheduler: expose the topology of clusters and add cluster scheduler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Chen [mailto:tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 8, 2021 12:17 PM
> To: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>;
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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] scheduler: expose the topology of clusters and
> add cluster scheduler
>
>
>
> On 1/6/21 12:30 AM, Barry Song wrote:
> > ARM64 server chip Kunpeng 920 has 6 clusters in each NUMA node, and each
> > cluster has 4 cpus. All clusters share L3 cache data while each cluster
> > has local L3 tag. On the other hand, each cluster will share some
> > internal system bus. This means cache is much more affine inside one cluster
> > than across clusters.
> >
> > +-----------------------------------+ +---------+
> > | +------+ +------+ +---------------------------+ |
> > | | CPU0 | | cpu1 | | +-----------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | | | | |
> > | +----+ L3 | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ cluster | | tag | | |
> > | | CPU2 | | CPU3 | | | | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
> > | | | |
> > +-----------------------------------+ | |
> > +-----------------------------------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
> > | | | | | | +-----------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | | | | |
> > | | | L3 | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ +----+ tag | | |
> > | | | | | | | | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
> > | | | |
> > +-----------------------------------+ | L3 |
> > | data |
> > +-----------------------------------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
> > | | | | | | | | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ +----+ L3 | | |
> > | | | tag | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | | | | |
> > | | | | | ++ +-----------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ |---------------------------+ |
> > +-----------------------------------| | |
> > +-----------------------------------| | |
> > | +------+ +------+ +---------------------------+ |
> > | | | | | | +-----------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | | | | |
> > | +----+ L3 | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | | tag | | |
> > | | | | | | | | | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
> > | | | |
> > +-----------------------------------+ | |
> > +-----------------------------------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
> > | | | | | | +-----------+ | |
> > | +------+ +------+ | | | | |
> >
> >
>
> There is a similar need for clustering in x86. Some x86 cores could share L2
> caches that
> is similar to the cluster in Kupeng 920 (e.g. on Jacobsville there are 6 clusters
> of 4 Atom cores, each cluster sharing a separate L2, and 24 cores sharing L3).
> Having a sched domain at the L2 cluster helps spread load among
> L2 domains. This will reduce L2 cache contention and help with
> performance for low to moderate load scenarios.
>
> The cluster detection mechanism will need
> to be based on L2 cache sharing in this case. I suggest making the
> cluster detection to be CPU architecture dependent so both ARM64 and x86 use
> cases
> can be accommodated.
>
> Attached below are two RFC patches for creating x86 L2
> cache sched domain, sans the idle cpu selection on wake up code. It is
> similar enough in concept to Barry's patch that we should have a
> single patchset that accommodates both use cases.

Hi Tim, Agreed on this.
hopefully the RFC v4 I am preparing will cover your case.

>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim

Thanks
Barry

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