linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] sched/fair: Introduce sched_smt_siblings

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2022 19:03:37 +0100
From:   Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
To:     Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc:     Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@...el.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Tim C . Chen" <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] sched/fair: Introduce sched_smt_siblings_idle()

On 22/11/2022 21:35, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Architectures that implement arch_asym_cpu_priority() may need to know the
> idle state of the SMT siblings of a CPU. The scheduler has this information
> and functionality. Expose it.
> 
> Move the existing functionality outside of the NUMA code.

[...]

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 0e4251f83807..9517c48df50e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1052,6 +1052,28 @@ update_stats_curr_start(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>   * Scheduling class queueing methods:
>   */
>  
> +static inline bool is_core_idle(int cpu)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +	int sibling;
> +
> +	for_each_cpu(sibling, cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) {
> +		if (cpu == sibling)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		if (!idle_cpu(sibling))
> +			return false;
> +	}
> +#endif
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
> +bool sched_smt_siblings_idle(int cpu)
> +{
> +	return is_core_idle(cpu);
> +}

Nitpick: Can we not just have one exported function for both use-cases:
NUMA and x86 ITMT?

[...]