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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 09:18:35 +0800
From: Feng Tang <feng.tang@...el.com>
To: "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tsc: Use topology_max_packages() to get package
number
On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 08:00:26PM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 10:58 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 3/15/24 04:26, Feng Tang wrote:
> > > Thomas' recent patchset of refactoring x86 topology code introduces
> > > topology_max_package(),
>
> s/topology_max_package/topology_max_packages
>
> And topology_max_packages() is not new. The patch set actually
> improves/fixes it.
Aha, you are right. Will fix the typo.
Thanks,
Feng
>
> >
> > I also did a big *gulp* when I saw this:
> >
> > #define topology_max_packages() (__max_logical_packages)
> >
> > and:
> >
> > > /*
> > > * Today neither Intel nor AMD support heterogeneous
> > > systems so
> > > * extrapolate the boot cpu's data to all packages.
> > > */
> > > ncpus = cpu_data(0).booted_cores *
> > > topology_max_smt_threads();
> > > __max_logical_packages = DIV_ROUND_UP(total_cpus, ncpus);
> >
> > Because Intel obviously has heterogeneous systems today.
> >
> Dave, I think you were checking the old code.
> Please refer to commit 090610ba704a ("x86/cpu/topology: Use topology
> bitmaps for sizing"), which is just merged in this merge window.
>
> thanks,
> rui
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