linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Add complex scheduler level for arm64

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Message-Id: <1650552960-60165-1-git-send-email-wangqing@vivo.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Apr 2022 07:55:56 -0700
From:   Qing Wang <wangqing@...o.com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Add complex scheduler level for arm64

From: Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>

The DSU-110 DynamIQ™ cluster supports blocks that are called complexes
which contain up to two cores of the same type and some shared logic.
Sharing some logic between the cores can make a complex area efficient.

This patch adds complex level for complexs by parsing cache topology
form DT. It will directly benefit a lot of workload which loves more
resources such as memory bandwidth, caches.

Note this patch only handle the DT case.

wangqing (2):
  arch_topology: support for describing cache topology from DT
  arm64: Add complex scheduler level for arm64

 arch/arm64/Kconfig            | 13 ++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c       | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/base/arch_topology.c  | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/arch_topology.h |  3 +++
 4 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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