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* [PATCH][RFC][0/2] x86 SMP: enables core-pair topology detection for AMD CPUs
@ 2011-06-23 22:51 Wei Huang
  2011-06-27  8:58 ` Jan Beulich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Wei Huang @ 2011-06-23 22:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'xen-devel@lists.xensource.com', Keir Fraser,
	george.dunlap, Jan Beulich

Hi,

The following two patches enable core-pair topology detection for AMD 
CPUs. The main idea is to record compute unit information into 
cpuinfo_x86 and use it when building sibling map. The sibling map will 
be used by Xen credit scheduler to coordinate VCPU scheduling in a 
fashion similar to SMT. This code is very similar to upstream Linux kernel.

Regarding the performance improvement, I saw ~8% improvement running 
kernel compilation on Dom0 with this patch. Anrea Przywara ran a POVRay 
benchmark using this patch and he saw ~5% improvement. No perf 
degradation was seen so far.

Please review.

Thanks,
-Wei

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2011-06-23 22:51 [PATCH][RFC][0/2] x86 SMP: enables core-pair topology detection for AMD CPUs Wei Huang
2011-06-27  8:58 ` Jan Beulich
2011-06-27 17:26   ` Wei Huang
2011-06-28  7:38     ` Jan Beulich
2011-06-28  8:51     ` George Dunlap
2011-10-21 10:31     ` George Dunlap

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