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From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:42:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081212214256.GA20559@sgi.com> (raw)

I'm seeing some behavior on a multiblade Intel x86_64 that does not
appear to be correct.

My x86_64 multiblade configuration has llc_shared_map (last level
cache shared map) showing cpus on different blades sharing a last
level cache.  With 2 cpus/blade and 4 blades (8 cpus total), I show
cpus 1,3,5,7 sharing llc, and 0,2,4,6 sharing llc.

The llc_shared_map is set based on matching values of cpu_llc_id
(last level cache ID).  The cpu_llc_id is set based on
cpuinfo_x86->apicid.  This value is set to cpuinfo_x86->initial_apicid.

The value of cpuinfo_x86->initial_apicid appears to be set twice
during startup:

- In generic_identify(), using the value returned by cpuid_ebx(1).
  This is the initial_apicid set at poweron, and results in
  cpuinfo_x86->initial_apicid having a value that is not unique across
  blades (where the blades do not share a cpu bus).

- Later, in detect_extended_topology() using the value for edx returned
  by cpuid_count(0xb,..).  This results in cpuinfo_x86->initial_apicid
  having a value that appears to be unique across blades.

Between those two assignments, cpuinfo_x86->apicid is set to
cpuinfo_x86->initial_apicid, so it is non-unique.  Then cpu_llc_id gets
set in init_intel_cacheinfo(), so cpu_llc_id winds up with a value that
is non-unique across blades, and llc_shared_map winds up showing cpus
on different blades as sharing last level cache.

Is cpu_llc_id supposed to be unique across blades?  I assume
llc_shared_map should not be showing shared cache across blades.

             reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12 21:42 Dimitri Sivanich [this message]
2008-12-12 21:59 ` Intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies Yinghai Lu
2008-12-19  2:09 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-12-19  8:15   ` Ingo Molnar

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