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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:40:54 +0200
From: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@....com>
To: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...wei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based
system
Hello Yicong,
IIUC we are looking for the maximum number of threads a CPU can have
in the platform. But is is actually possible to have a platform with
CPUs not having the same number of threads ?
For instance kernel/cpu.c::cpu_smt_num_threads_valid() will check
that the number of threads is either 1 or cpu_smt_max_threads (as
CONFIG_SMT_NUM_THREADS_DYNAMIC is not enabled for arm64). However
a (hypothetical) platform with:
- CPU0: 2 threads
- CPU1: 4 threads
should not be able to set the number of threads to 2, as
1 < 2 < cpu_smt_max_threads (cf. cpu_smt_num_threads_valid()).
So if there is an assumption that all the CPUs have the same number of
threads, it should be sufficient to count the number of threads for one
CPU right ?
In the other (unlikely) case (i.e. CPUs can have various number of threads),
I think we should either:
- use your method and check that all the CPUs have the same number of threads
- get the number of threads for one CPU and check that all the CPUs are
identical using the ACPI_PPTT_ACPI_IDENTICAL tag
- have a per-cpu cpu_smt_max_threads value ?
Same comment for the DT patch. If there is an assumption that all CPUs have
the same number of threads, then update_smt_num_threads() could only be called
once I suppose,
Regards,
Pierre
On 8/6/24 10:53, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>
>
> For ACPI we'll build the topology from PPTT and we cannot directly
> get the SMT number of each core. Instead using a temporary xarray
> to record the SMT number of each core when building the topology
> and we can know the largest SMT number in the system. Then we can
> enable the support of SMT control.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> index 1a2c72f3e7f8..f72e1e55b05e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@
> #include <linux/arch_topology.h>
> #include <linux/cacheinfo.h>
> #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
> +#include <linux/cpu_smt.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> #include <linux/percpu.h>
> +#include <linux/xarray.h>
>
> #include <asm/cpu.h>
> #include <asm/cputype.h>
> @@ -43,11 +45,16 @@ static bool __init acpi_cpu_is_threaded(int cpu)
> */
> int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
> {
> + int thread_num, max_smt_thread_num = 1;
> + struct xarray core_threads;
> int cpu, topology_id;
> + void *entry;
>
> if (acpi_disabled)
> return 0;
>
> + xa_init(&core_threads);
> +
> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology(cpu, 0);
> if (topology_id < 0)
> @@ -57,6 +64,20 @@ int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
> cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id = topology_id;
> topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology(cpu, 1);
> cpu_topology[cpu].core_id = topology_id;
> +
> + entry = xa_load(&core_threads, topology_id);
> + if (!entry) {
> + xa_store(&core_threads, topology_id,
> + xa_mk_value(1), GFP_KERNEL);
> + } else {
> + thread_num = xa_to_value(entry);
> + thread_num++;
> + xa_store(&core_threads, topology_id,
> + xa_mk_value(thread_num), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> + if (thread_num > max_smt_thread_num)
> + max_smt_thread_num = thread_num;
> + }
> } else {
> cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id = -1;
> cpu_topology[cpu].core_id = topology_id;
> @@ -67,6 +88,9 @@ int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
> cpu_topology[cpu].package_id = topology_id;
> }
>
> + cpu_smt_set_num_threads(max_smt_thread_num, max_smt_thread_num);
> +
> + xa_destroy(&core_threads);
> return 0;
> }
> #endif
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