On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:12:26AM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > Basically; and if so, if its cheap enough to shoot a task to an idle
> > core to avoid queueing. Assuming there still is some cache residency on
> > the old core, the inter-core fill should be much cheaper than fetching
> > it off package (either remote cache or dram).
>
> So I think that will apply on POWER8.
>
> In 10.4.2 it says "The L3.1 ECO Caches will be snooped and provide
> intervention data similar to the L2 and L3.0 caches on the
> chip" That should be much faster than going to another chip or DIMM.
>
> So migrating to another core on the same chip should be faster than off
> chip.
OK; so something like the below might be what you want to play with.
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 55c924b65f71..1a54fa8a3323 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -782,6 +782,23 @@ static struct sched_domain_topology_level
powerpc_topology[] = {
{ NULL, },
};
+static struct sched_domain_topology_level powerpc8_topology[] = {
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
+ { cpu_smt_mask, powerpc_smt_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(SMT) },
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_MC
+ /*
+ * Model the L3.1 cache and sets the LLC as the whole package.
+ *
+ * This also ensures we try and move woken tasks to idle cores inside
+ * the package to avoid queueing.
+ */
+ { cpu_coregroup_mask, cpu_core_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(MC) },
+#endif
+ { cpu_cpu_mask, SD_INIT_NAME(DIE) },
+ { NULL, },
+};
+
void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
{
cpumask_var_t old_mask;
@@ -806,7 +823,10 @@ void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
dump_numa_cpu_topology();
- set_sched_topology(powerpc_topology);
+ if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTRS_POWER8))
+ set_sched_topology(powerpc8_topology);
+ else
+ set_sched_topology(powerpc_topology);
}
