linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2

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Date:   Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:34:45 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Aubrey Li <aubrey.intel@...il.com>,
        Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@...italocean.com>,
        Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@...italocean.com>,
        Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@...italocean.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Subhra Mazumdar <subhra.mazumdar@...cle.com>,
        Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Greg Kerr <kerrnel@...gle.com>, Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
        Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/17] Core scheduling v2


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> It exists already: /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control
> 
> Setting it to off will offline all siblings, on will online them again.

Indeed, added by 05736e4ac13c last year (and I promptly forgot about it 
...) - I was thrown off a bit by the 'nosmt' flag Mel used, but that's 
probably because he used an older kernel.

Thanks,

	Ingo