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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:59:18 -0700 From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@...il.com>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, Murilo Opsfelder Araujo <muriloo@...ux.ibm.com>, Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm,thread-groups" * Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-08-20 11:11:43]: > From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> > > On IBM POWER9, the device tree exposes a property array identifed by one small nit: s/identifed/identified/g > "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 share the L1 cache, translation cache and > instruction data flow. > > This patch defines the helper function to parse the contents of > "ibm,thread-groups" and a new structure to contain the parsed output. > > The patch also creates the sysfs file named "small_core_siblings" that > returns the physical ids of the threads in the core that share the L1 > cache, translation cache and instruction data flow. > > Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Otherwise looks good to me. Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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