linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/cacheinfo: Add "ibm,thread-groups" awareness

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Message-Id: <1611041780-8640-1-git-send-email-ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:06:18 +0530
From:   "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/cacheinfo: Add "ibm,thread-groups" awareness

From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi,

Currently the cacheinfo code on powerpc indexes the "cache" objects
(modelling the L1/L2/L3 caches) where the key is device-tree node
corresponding to that cache. On some of the POWER server platforms
thread-groups within the core share different sets of caches (Eg: On
SMT8 POWER9 systems, threads 0,2,4,6 of a core share L1 cache and
threads 1,3,5,7 of the same core share another L1 cache). On such
platforms, there is a single device-tree node corresponding to that
cache and the cache-configuration within the threads of the core is
indicated via "ibm,thread-groups" device-tree property.

Since the current code is not aware of the "ibm,thread-groups"
property, on the aforementoined systems, cacheinfo code still treats
all the threads in the core to be sharing the cache because of the
single device-tree node (In the earlier example, the cacheinfo code
would says CPUs 0-7 share L1 cache).

In this patch series, we make the powerpc cacheinfo code aware of the
"ibm,thread-groups" property. We indexe the "cache" objects by the
key-pair (device-tree node, thread-group id). For any CPUX, for a
given level of cache, the thread-group id is defined to be the first
CPU in the "ibm,thread-groups" cache-group containing CPUX. For levels
of cache which are not represented in "ibm,thread-groups" property,
the thread-group id is -1.

We can now remove the helper function get_shared_cpu_map() and
index_dir_to_cpu() since the cache->shared_cpu_map contains the
correct satate of the thread-siblings sharing the cache.

This has been tested on a SMT8 POWER9 system where L1 cache is split
between groups of threads in the core and on an SMT8 POWER10 system
where L1 and L2 caches are split between groups of threads in a core.

With this patch series, on POWER10 SMT8 system, we see the following
reported via sysfs:

$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[89]/cache/index[0123]/shared_cpu_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:8,10,12,14
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:8,10,12,14
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:8,10,12,14
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8-15
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:9,11,13,15
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:9,11,13,15
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:9,11,13,15
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8-15

$ ppc64_cpu --smt=4
$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[89]/cache/index[0123]/shared_cpu_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:8,10
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:8,10
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:8,10
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8-11
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:9,11
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:9,11
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:9,11
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8-11

$ ppc64_cpu --smt=2
$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[89]/cache/index[0123]/shared_cpu_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:8
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:8
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:8
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8-9
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:9
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:9
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:9
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu9/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8-9

$ ppc64_cpu --smt=1
$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[89]/cache/index[0123]/shared_cpu_list
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index0/shared_cpu_list:8
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index1/shared_cpu_list:8
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index2/shared_cpu_list:8
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu8/cache/index3/shared_cpu_list:8

Gautham R. Shenoy (2):
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Lookup cache by dt node and thread-group id
  powerpc/cacheinfo: Remove the redundant get_shared_cpu_map()

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h  |   3 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

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