Re: [PATCH] x86: Consider multiple nodes in a single socket to be "sane"

Dave Hansen
2014-09-16T23:49:09Z

On 09/16/2014 10:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> the 'problem' is that we currently have the static order of
> the masks, if we were to flip the MC and NUMA masks we need a condition
> to do that on and make sure everything is aware of that.
>
> CoD not being detectable sucks arse for sure :/

It's not like we can't detect it. We just can't detect it *explicitly*.
I think when we see nodes inside a package now, we have to trust that
they're OK.

One other data point here. With an unpatched mainline, here's how the
sched domains look with cluster-on-die enabled:

# grep . /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain?/name
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain0/name:SMT // 2 threads
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain1/name:MC // 18 threads cores
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain2/name:NUMA // 36 threads
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain3/name:NUMA // 72 threads

and with cluster-on-die disabled:

# grep . /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain?/name
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain0/name:SMT
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain1/name:MC
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu9/domain2/name:NUMA

So, shockingly, the domains seem to be set up at at least conceptually
OK in both cases.

I think the domains in this case should _probably_ be conceptually:

SMT -> COD_NUMA -> PKG -> SOCKET_NUMA

We could probably rig up sched_init_numa() to mix topology levels
between the ones that come out of sched_domain_topology and the NUMA
levels, although that doesn't sound very appealing.

Another option would be to:
1. Add a new "PKG" level and actually _build_ it with phys_proc_id
2. Make sure to tie the sysfs 'core_siblings' file to PKG
3. Leave the "MC" level as it is now, but define it as being the lowest-
common-denominator of core grouping. In other words, the "MC" group
will stop at a NUMA node or a socket boundary, whichever it sees
first.
4. Chop the "COD_NUMA" level off in sched_init_numa()

That seems a bit hackish though.