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author | Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2020-08-07 13:15:16 +0530 |
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committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2020-09-16 22:05:18 +1000 |
commit | 3babbe447d76ac2919ec4d0eb3b0adfb22f5b03c (patch) | |
tree | 2be0fd8efd1fd7d5e971fe11fc01de3aef2f4518 /include/linux/topology.h | |
parent | 3db8715ec9dc1d32ecafc67af9fb96508c98efe5 (diff) |
sched/topology: Allow archs to override cpu_smt_mask
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.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200807074517.27957-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/topology.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/topology.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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); |