On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:28:17PM -0800, Atish Patra wrote: > From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com> > > The current ARM DT topology description provides the operating system > with a topological view of the system that is based on leaf nodes > representing either cores or threads (in an SMT system) and a > hierarchical set of cluster nodes that creates a hierarchical topology > view of how those cores and threads are grouped. > > However this hierarchical representation of clusters does not allow to > describe what topology level actually represents the physical package or > the socket boundary, which is a key piece of information to be used by > an operating system to optimize resource allocation and scheduling. > > Lets add a new "socket" node type in the cpu-map node to describe the > same. > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com>
Thanks for picking this up and putting it as part of your unification work. I will try to test the series and review it soon. -- Regards, Sudeep
