Re: [PATCH 15/15] x86: Fix cpu_coregroup_mask to return correct cpumask on multi-node processors

[Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:55:43AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:31 +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:36:16PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:46 +0200, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > > > The correct mask that describes core-siblings of an processor
> > > > is topology_core_cpumask. See topology adapation patches, especially
> > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124964999608179
> > > 
> > > 
> > > argh, violence, murder kill.. this is the worst possible hack and you're
> > > extending it :/
> > 
> > So this is the third code area
> > (besides sched_*_power_savings sysfs interface, and the __cpu_power fiddling)
> > that is crap, mess, a hack.
> > 
> > Didn't know that I'd enter such a minefield when touching this code. ;-(
> 
> Yeah, you're lucky that way ;-) Its been creaking for a while, and I've
> been making noises to the IBM people (who so far have been the main
> source of power saving patches) to clean this up, but now you trod onto
> all of it at once..
> 
> > What would be your perferred solution for the
> > core_cpumask/llc_shared_map stuff?  Another domain level to get rid of
> > this function?
> 
> Right, I'd like to see everything exposed as domain levels.
> 
> 
> numa-cluster
> numa
> socket
> in-socket-numa
> multi-core
> shared-cache
> core
> threads
> 
> We currently have a fixed order of these things, but I think we should
> simply provide helpers for building the sd tree and let the arch code do
> that instead of exporting all these masks in a fixed order.
> 
> Once we get the arch domain tree, we do degenerate stuff to cull all the
> trivial domains and fold SD flags.

So any in-socket-numa is only going to haeppen with the arch-defined
domain tree.

Now that this is settled you should throw away the
__build_sched_domains cleanup patches that are in tip. They won't be
of use when domain creation code is basically changed.


Regards,

Andreas

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