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From: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: "Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	"Yanan Wang" <wangyanan55@huawei.com>,
	"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Zhenyu Wang <zhenyu.z.wang@intel.com>,
	Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
	Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>, Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>,
	Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/17] i386/cpu: Fix i/d-cache topology to core level for Intel CPU
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 20:30:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230529123101.411267-5-zhao1.liu@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230529123101.411267-1-zhao1.liu@linux.intel.com>

From: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>

For i-cache and d-cache, the maximum IDs for CPUs sharing cache (
CPUID.04H.00H:EAX[bits 25:14] and CPUID.04H.01H:EAX[bits 25:14]) are
both 0, and this means i-cache and d-cache are shared in the SMT level.
This is correct if there's single thread per core, but is wrong for the
hyper threading case (one core contains multiple threads) since the
i-cache and d-cache are shared in the core level other than SMT level.

For AMD CPU, commit 8f4202fb1080 ("i386: Populate AMD Processor Cache
Information for cpuid 0x8000001D") has already introduced i/d cache
topology as core level by default.

Therefore, in order to be compatible with both multi-threaded and
single-threaded situations, we should set i-cache and d-cache be shared
at the core level by default.

This fix changes the default i/d cache topology from per-thread to
per-core. Potentially, this change in L1 cache topology may affect the
performance of the VM if the user does not specifically specify the
topology or bind the vCPU. However, the way to achieve optimal
performance should be to create a reasonable topology and set the
appropriate vCPU affinity without relying on QEMU's default topology
structure.

Fixes: 7e3482f82480 ("i386: Helpers to encode cache information consistently")
Suggested-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
---
 * Split this fix from the patch named "i386/cpu: Fix number of
   addressable IDs in CPUID.04H".
 * Add the explanation of the impact on performance. (Xiaoyao)
---
 target/i386/cpu.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 384821ba4bd0..101161954173 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -5841,12 +5841,12 @@ void cpu_x86_cpuid(CPUX86State *env, uint32_t index, uint32_t count,
             switch (count) {
             case 0: /* L1 dcache info */
                 encode_cache_cpuid4(env->cache_info_cpuid4.l1d_cache,
-                                    1, cs->nr_cores,
+                                    cs->nr_threads, cs->nr_cores,
                                     eax, ebx, ecx, edx);
                 break;
             case 1: /* L1 icache info */
                 encode_cache_cpuid4(env->cache_info_cpuid4.l1i_cache,
-                                    1, cs->nr_cores,
+                                    cs->nr_threads, cs->nr_cores,
                                     eax, ebx, ecx, edx);
                 break;
             case 2: /* L2 cache info */
-- 
2.34.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-29 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-29 12:30 [PATCH v2 00/17] Support smp.clusters for x86 Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] i386: Fix comment style in topology.h Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] tests: Rename test-x86-cpuid.c to test-x86-topo.c Zhao Liu
2023-06-28  6:21   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] softmmu: Fix CPUSTATE.nr_cores' calculation Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` Zhao Liu [this message]
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] i386/cpu: Use APIC ID offset to encode cache topo in CPUID[4] Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] i386/cpu: Consolidate the use of topo_info in cpu_x86_cpuid() Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] i386: Introduce module-level cpu topology to CPUX86State Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] i386: Support modules_per_die in X86CPUTopoInfo Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] i386: Support module_id in X86CPUTopoIDs Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] i386/cpu: Introduce cluster-id to X86CPU Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] tests: Add test case of APIC ID for module level parsing Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] hw/i386/pc: Support smp.clusters for x86 PC machine Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] i386: Add cache topology info in CPUCacheInfo Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] i386: Use CPUCacheInfo.share_level to encode CPUID[4] Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:30 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] i386: Fix NumSharingCache for CPUID[0x8000001D].EAX[bits 25:14] Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] i386: Use CPUCacheInfo.share_level to encode " Zhao Liu
2023-05-29 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] i386: Add new property to control L2 cache topo in CPUID.04H Zhao Liu
2023-06-13  7:57 ` [PATCH v2 00/17] Support smp.clusters for x86 Zhao Liu
2023-06-14  1:59   ` Ma, Yongwei
2023-06-22 20:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-06-28  1:18   ` Zhao Liu
2023-07-10 18:42     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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