Re: [PATCH] powerpc/smp: Dynamically build powerpc topology

[Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>]

Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Currently there are four powerpc specific sched topologies.  These are
> all statically defined.  However not all these topologies are used by
> all powerpc systems.
>
> To avoid unnecessary degenerations by the scheduler , masks and flags
> are compared. However if the sched topologies are build dynamically then
> the code is simpler and there are greater chances of avoiding
> degenerations.
>
> Even x86 builds its sched topologies dynamically and new changes are
> very similar to the way x86 is building its topologies.
>
> System Configuration
> type=Shared mode=Uncapped smt=8 lcpu=128 mem=1063126592 kB cpus=96 ent=40.00
>
> $ lscpu
> Architecture:                    ppc64le
> Byte Order:                      Little Endian
> CPU(s):                          1024
> On-line CPU(s) list:             0-1023
> Model name:                      POWER10 (architected), altivec supported
> Model:                           2.0 (pvr 0080 0200)
> Thread(s) per core:              8
> Core(s) per socket:              32
> Socket(s):                       4
> Hypervisor vendor:               pHyp
> Virtualization type:             para
> L1d cache:                       8 MiB (256 instances)
> L1i cache:                       12 MiB (256 instances)
> NUMA node(s):                    4
>
> From dmesg of v6.5
> [    0.174444] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
> [    3.918535] smp: Brought up 4 nodes, 1024 CPUs
> [   38.001402] sysrq: Changing Loglevel
> [   38.001446] sysrq: Loglevel set to 9
>
> From dmesg of v6.5 + patch
> [    0.174462] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
> [    3.421462] smp: Brought up 4 nodes, 1024 CPUs
> [   35.417917] sysrq: Changing Loglevel
> [   35.417959] sysrq: Loglevel set to 9
>
> 5 runs of ppc64_cpu --smt=1 (time measured: lesser is better)
> Kernel  N  Min     Max     Median  Avg      Stddev     %Change
> v6.5    5  518.08  574.27  528.61  535.388  22.341542
> +patch  5  481.73  495.47  484.21  486.402  5.7997     -9.14963
>
> 5 runs of ppc64_cpu --smt=8 (time measured: lesser is better)
> Kernel  N  Min      Max      Median   Avg       Stddev     %Change
> v6.5    5  1094.12  1117.1   1108.97  1106.3    8.606361
> +patch  5  1067.5   1090.03  1073.89  1076.574  9.4189347  -2.68697
>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 78 ++++++++++++++-------------------------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> index 48b8161179a8..c16443a04c26 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -92,15 +92,6 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_l2_cache_map);
>  EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_core_map);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(has_big_cores);
>  
> -enum {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> -	smt_idx,
> -#endif
> -	cache_idx,
> -	mc_idx,
> -	die_idx,
> -};
> -
>  #define MAX_THREAD_LIST_SIZE	8
>  #define THREAD_GROUP_SHARE_L1   1
>  #define THREAD_GROUP_SHARE_L2_L3 2
> @@ -1048,16 +1039,6 @@ static const struct cpumask *cpu_mc_mask(int cpu)
>  	return cpu_coregroup_mask(cpu);
>  }
>  
> -static struct sched_domain_topology_level powerpc_topology[] = {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> -	{ cpu_smt_mask, powerpc_smt_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(SMT) },
> -#endif
> -	{ shared_cache_mask, powerpc_shared_cache_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(CACHE) },
> -	{ cpu_mc_mask, powerpc_shared_proc_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(MC) },
> -	{ cpu_cpu_mask, powerpc_shared_proc_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(DIE) },
> -	{ NULL, },
> -};

This doesn't apply on my next or upstream.

It looks like it depends on your other 6-patch series. Please append
this patch to that series.

cheers