linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] powerpc/smp: Enable small core scheduling sooner

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:29:07 +0530
From:   Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Michael Ellerman <michaele@....ibm.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@....ibm.com>,
        Oliver OHalloran <oliveroh@....ibm.com>,
        Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
        Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] powerpc/smp: Enable small core scheduling sooner

* Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [2020-07-22 11:29:25]:

> Hello Srikar,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 05:08:08PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > Enable small core scheduling as soon as we detect that we are in a
> > system that supports thread group. Doing so would avoid a redundant
> > check.
> 
> The patch looks good to me. However, I think the commit message still
> reflect the v1 code where we were moving the functionality from
> smp_cpus_done() to init_big_cores().
> 
> In this we are moving it to a helper function to collate all fixups to
> topology.
> 

Right.
Thanks for pointing , will correct this.


-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju