Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Enable ASYM_SMT on interleaved big-core systems

2018-05-18 Thread Michael Ellerman
Gautham R Shenoy writes: > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:22:07PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 16:47 +0530, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: >> > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" >> > >> > Each of the SMT4 cores forming a fused-core are more or less >> > independent units. Thus when mult

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Enable ASYM_SMT on interleaved big-core systems

2018-05-15 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:22:07PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote: > On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 16:47 +0530, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: > > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" > > > > Each of the SMT4 cores forming a fused-core are more or less > > independent units. Thus when multiple tasks are scheduled to run on

Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Enable ASYM_SMT on interleaved big-core systems

2018-05-13 Thread Michael Neuling
On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 16:47 +0530, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" > > Each of the SMT4 cores forming a fused-core are more or less > independent units. Thus when multiple tasks are scheduled to run on > the fused core, we get the best performance when the tasks are spread >