Re: [PATCH v9 0/3] powerpc: Detection and scheduler optimization for POWER9 bigcore

2018-10-03 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
Hello Dave, On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 07:05:11AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 10/01/2018 06:16 AM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: > > > > Patch 3: Creates a pair of sysfs attributes named > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/smallcore_thread_siblings > > and > > /sys/devices/syst

Re: [PATCH v9 0/3] powerpc: Detection and scheduler optimization for POWER9 bigcore

2018-10-01 Thread Dave Hansen
On 10/01/2018 06:16 AM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote: > > Patch 3: Creates a pair of sysfs attributes named > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/smallcore_thread_siblings > and > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/smallcore_thread_siblings_list > exposing the small

[PATCH v9 0/3] powerpc: Detection and scheduler optimization for POWER9 bigcore

2018-10-01 Thread Gautham R. Shenoy
From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" Hi, This is the ninth iteration of the patchset to add support for big-core on POWER9. This patch also optimizes the task placement on such big-core systems. The previous versions can be found here: v8: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/20/899 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018