Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] powerpc/smp: Disable MC domain for shared processor

Peter Zijlstra
2023-10-19T07:51:08Z

On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 03:48:48PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > Like L2-cache info, coregroup information which is used to determine MC
> > sched domains is only present on dedicated LPARs. i.e PowerVM doesn't
> > export coregroup information for shared processor LPARs. Hence disable
> > creating MC domains on shared LPAR Systems.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> > index 498c2d51fc20..29da9262cb17 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> > @@ -1046,6 +1046,10 @@ static struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu)
> >
> > static bool has_coregroup_support(void)
> > {
> > + /* Coregroup identification not available on shared systems */
> > + if (is_shared_processor())
> > + return 0;
>
> That will catch guests running under KVM too right? Do we want that?

Some KVM people use vcpu pinning and pass-through topology things,
slice-of-hardware or something like that. In that scenario you actively
do want this.

I'm fairly clueless on when this is_shared_processor() gets to be true,
so that might already be dealt with..