linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: DT: arm: add support for sockets defining package boundaries

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Message-ID: <e599eaf5-381b-e2e0-067a-4225bb348b80@wdc.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:18:42 -0800
From:   Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:     "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "palmer@...ive.com" <palmer@...ive.com>,
        "anup@...infault.org" <anup@...infault.org>,
        Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@....com>,
        "mick@....forth.gr" <mick@....forth.gr>,
        "mark.rutland@....com" <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "zong@...estech.com" <zong@...estech.com>,
        "alankao@...estech.com" <alankao@...estech.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Documentation: DT: arm: add support for sockets
 defining package boundaries

On 11/12/18 3:37 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 05:13:44PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> The current ARM DT topology description provides the operating system
>> with a topological view of the system that is based on leaf nodes
>> representing either cores or threads (in an SMT system) and a
>> hierarchical set of cluster nodes that creates a hierarchical topology
>> view of how those cores and threads are grouped.
>>
>> However this hierarchical representation of clusters does not allow to
>> describe what topology level actually represents the physical package or
>> the socket boundary, which is a key piece of information to be used by
>> an operating system to optimize resource allocation and scheduling.
>>
>> Lets add a new "socket" node type in the cpu-map node to describe the
>> same.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
>> ---
>>   .../devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt      | 52 ++++++++++++++-----
>>   1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> (Note patch generated with -b option to avoid 60+ of whitespace changes)
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> You had expressed your interest to generalise the CPU topology bindings
>> accross multiple architectures. Do you want to move to the generic
>> bindings before adding this $subject socket support or is it OK to
>> finalise on this and then move the majority(based on the agreement)
>> to generic binding.
> 
> Doesn't really matter to me as long as Risc-V folks are in agreement.
> 
> Otherwise, this looks fine to me.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
I can apply this patch in my unify topology series and resend everything 
together as one series.


Regards,
Atish