Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/smpboot: avoid SMT domain attach/destroy if SMT is not enabled

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Tue, Jun 24 2025 at 16:08, Li Chen wrote:
> From: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
>
> Currently, the SMT domain is added into sched_domain_topology
> by default if CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is enabled.
>
> If cpu_attach_domain finds that the CPU SMT domain’s cpumask_weight

If cpu_attach_domain()

IIRC, I told you that before.

> is just 1, it will destroy_sched_domain it.
>
> On a large machine, such as one with 512 cores, this results in
> 512 redundant domain attach/destroy operations.
>
> We can avoid these unnecessary operations by simply checking

s/We can avoid/Avoid/

Care to read my reviews? If you disagree, then discuss it with me, but
silently ignoring it them is not an option.

> cpu_smt_num_threads and not inserting SMT domain into x86_topology if SMT

not inserting? That's not what this new version does.

> +static void __init maybe_remove_smt_level(void)
> +{
> +	if (cpu_smt_num_threads <= 1) {
> +		/*
> +		 * SMT level is x86_topology[0].  Shift the array left by one,
> +		 * keep the sentinel { NULL } at the end.
> +		 */
> +		memmove(&x86_topology[0], &x86_topology[1],
> +			sizeof(x86_topology) - sizeof(x86_topology[0]));
> +		memset(&x86_topology[ARRAY_SIZE(x86_topology) - 1], 0,
> +		       sizeof(x86_topology[0]));

So this sets the last entry in the array, aka the original sentinel in
the last array entry, to zero...

This is completely pointless. The above memmove() copies

	topo[1 .. (N - 1)] 
to
	topo[0 .. (N - 2)]

Where N = ARRAY_SIZE(topo).

Therefore
        topo[N - 1] == NULL
and
        topo[N - 2] == NULL

No?

But then what's worse is that you fail to take that removal into account
for the x86_has_numa_in_package case, which still unconditionally sets
topo[N - 2] to zero even if the SMT level had been removed...

Please take your time and do not rush out half baked stuff.

Thanks,

        tglx