linux-kernel - Re: Scheduler regression from caffcdd8d27ba78730d5540396ce72ad022aff2c

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Message-ID: <20140722133514.GM12054@laptop.lan>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:35:14 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...ff.to>
Cc:	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Scheduler regression from
 caffcdd8d27ba78730d5540396ce72ad022aff2c

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:26:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:03:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Oh, of course we do SMP detection and setup after the cache setup...
> > lovely.
> > 
> > /me goes bang head against wall
> 
> hpa, could we move the legacy cpuid1/cpuid4 topology detection muck up,
> preferably right after detect_extended_topology()?
> 
> I need c->phys_proc_id in init_intel_cacheinfo() for machines with
> cpuid_level < 4.

Something like so.. anything obviously broken?

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c           | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 0fd955778f35..9483ee5b3991 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -370,6 +370,17 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	 */
 	detect_extended_topology(c);
 
+	if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY)) {
+		/*
+		 * let's use the legacy cpuid vector 0x1 and 0x4 for topology
+		 * detection.
+		 */
+		c->x86_max_cores = intel_num_cpu_cores(c);
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+		detect_ht(c);
+#endif
+	}
+
 	l2 = init_intel_cacheinfo(c);
 	if (c->cpuid_level > 9) {
 		unsigned eax = cpuid_eax(10);
@@ -438,17 +449,6 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_P3);
 #endif
 
-	if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_XTOPOLOGY)) {
-		/*
-		 * let's use the legacy cpuid vector 0x1 and 0x4 for topology
-		 * detection.
-		 */
-		c->x86_max_cores = intel_num_cpu_cores(c);
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-		detect_ht(c);
-#endif
-	}
-
 	/* Work around errata */
 	srat_detect_node(c);
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
index a952e9c85b6f..9c8f7394c612 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -730,6 +730,18 @@ unsigned int init_intel_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 #endif
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_HT
+	/*
+	 * If cpu_llc_id is not yet set, this means cpuid_level < 4 which in
+	 * turns means that the only possibility is SMT (as indicated in
+	 * cpuid1). Since cpuid2 doesn't specify shared caches, and we know
+	 * that SMT shares all caches, we can unconditionally set cpu_llc_id to
+	 * c->phys_proc_id.
+	 */
+	if (per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu) == BAD_APICID)
+		per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu) = c->phys_proc_id;
+#endif
+
 	c->x86_cache_size = l3 ? l3 : (l2 ? l2 : (l1i+l1d));
 
 	return l2;
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