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From: haojian.zhuang@linaro.org (Haojian Zhuang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/12] ARM: mcpm: change max clusters to 4
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:45:05 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD6h2NTH1ZGWSNPeEMaZ4Lf+4UFOhXFtJeX1NEXETeonc76DYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1404102203590.980@knanqh.ubzr>

On 11 April 2014 10:39, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Dave Martin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
>> > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster,
>> > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM.
>>
>> CC Nico on mcpm patches please.  I'm happy to be CC'd as well.
>
> Indeed.
>
>> > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +-
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h
>> > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644
>> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h
>> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h
>> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
>> >   * to consider dynamic allocation.
>> >   */
>> >  #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER       4
>> > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS            2
>> > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS            4
>>
>> Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the
>> system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial
>> amount of memory.
>>
>> Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define
>> every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters.
>> If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory.
>>
>> I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define
>> to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now.  Ideally, we would have
>> a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built
>> into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation.
>
> I think we should go with the ability to select a maximum based on the
> configured platforms. That could be as simple as having a
> CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol to be selected by those platforms that
> need it.
>

I'll set MAX_NR_CLUSTERS from Kconfig.

If BIG_LITTLE isn't enabled & HIP04 is enabled, MAX_NR_CLUSTERS could
be set to 4.
Otherwise, it's always 2. Since there're only 16 A15 cores in HiP04.

Regards
Haojian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-15  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-08  8:00 [PATCH v2 00/12] Add Hisilicon HiP04 SoC Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 01/12] ARM: debug: add HiP04 debug uart Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 02/12] ARM: append ARCH_MULTI_V7_LPAE Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08 10:59   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-14  6:26     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 03/12] ARM: hisi: add ARCH_HISI Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08 11:02   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-08 11:13   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-14  7:57     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-14  9:10       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 04/12] irq: gic: use mask field in GICC_IAR Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/12] irq: gic: extends the cpu interface to 16 Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-10  8:12   ` Marc Zyngier
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 06/12] ARM: mcpm: change max clusters to 4 Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-10  9:56   ` Dave Martin
2014-04-11  2:39     ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-11 14:57       ` Dave Martin
2014-04-15  6:45       ` Haojian Zhuang [this message]
2014-04-15  8:15         ` Dave Martin
2014-04-15 14:48         ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 07/12] ARM: hisi: add hip04 SoC support Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08 11:10   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-15  7:02     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-15  7:50       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-10  8:50   ` Mark Rutland
2014-04-15  7:35     ` Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-10 11:21   ` Dave Martin
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 08/12] ARM: dts: add hip04-d01 dts file Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-10  9:09   ` Mark Rutland
2014-04-10 10:25   ` Dave Martin
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 09/12] ARM: config: append hip04_defconfig Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08 11:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 10/12] ARM: config: select ARCH_HISI in hi3xxx_defconfig Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 11/12] ARM: hisi: enable erratum 798181 of A15 on HiP04 Haojian Zhuang
2014-04-08  8:00 ` [PATCH v2 12/12] ARM: dts: Add PMU support in HiP04 Haojian Zhuang

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