> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_smallcore_map);
>
> +/*
> + * On big-cores system, cpu_l1_cache_map for each CPU corresponds to
> + * the set its siblings that share the L1-cache.
> + */
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_l1_cache_map);
>
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From: "Gautham R. Shenoy"
On IBM POWER9, the device tree exposes a property array identifed by
"ibm,thread-groups" which will indicate which groups of threads share
a particular set of resources.
As of today we only have one form of grouping identifying the group of
threads in the core that