linux-kernel - Re: [RFT PATCH v1 1/4] Documentation: DT: arm: add support for sockets defining package boundaries

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Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 16:46:43 +0000
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Anup Patel <anup@...infault.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitriy Cherkasov <dmitriy@...-tech.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>,
        "moderated list:ARM64 PORT (AARCH64 ARCHITECTURE)" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH v1 1/4] Documentation: DT: arm: add support for
 sockets defining package boundaries

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:28:17PM -0800, Atish Patra wrote:
> From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
> 
> 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>

Thanks for picking this up and putting it as part of your unification
work. I will try to test the series and review it soon.

--
Regards,
Sudeep