linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 0/4] x86/smpboot: tidy sched-topology and drop useless SMT level

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Message-ID: <20250706030636.397197-1-me@linux.beauty>
Date: Sun,  6 Jul 2025 11:06:28 +0800
From: Li Chen <me@...ux.beauty>
To: Li Chen  <me@...ux.beauty>," Thomas Gleixner "<tglx@...utronix.de>," Ingo Molnar "<mingo@...hat.com>," Borislav Petkov "<bp@...en8.de>," Dave Hansen "<dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,<x86@...nel.org>," H . Peter Anvin "<hpa@...or.com>," Rafael J . Wysocki "<rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>," Peter Zijlstra "<peterz@...radead.org>," Sohil Mehta "<sohil.mehta@...el.com>," Brian Gerst "<brgerst@...il.com>," Patryk Wlazlyn " <patryk.wlazlyn@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/4] x86/smpboot: tidy sched-topology and drop useless SMT level

From: Li Chen <chenl311@...natelecom.cn>

This series cleans up sched-domain topology handling and
eliminates hundreds of pointless attach/destroy cycles for large
machines when SMT is not available.

Patch 1, 2, and 3 do some cleanup and refactor.

Patch 4 is a follow-up that simply skip SMT domain when
cpu_smt_num_threads <= 1, so the SMT level never gets created.

Tested on Qemu.

changelog:
v2: fix wording issue as suggested by Thomas [1]
v3: remove pointless memset and adjust PKG index accordingly, as
    suggested by Thomas [2], and refine some other wording issues.
v4: v4: Split refactor patche into three parts (as suggested by Peter [3])
    and refined patch 4 logic (as done by K. [4]).

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87msa2r018.ffs@tglx/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/875xglntx1.ffs@tglx/
[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/6/25/584
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1b706790-2fec-4582-a425-55eeff36c32e@amd.com/

Li Chen (4):
  smpboot: introduce SDTL() helper to tidy sched topology setup
  x86/smpboot: remove redundant CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
  x86/smpboot: moves x86_topology to static initialize and truncate
  x86/smpboot: avoid SMT domain attach/destroy if SMT is not enabled

 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c      | 34 ++++++++-------------
 arch/s390/kernel/topology.c    | 10 +++----
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c      | 55 ++++++++++++++++------------------
 include/linux/sched/topology.h |  6 ++--
 kernel/sched/topology.c        | 16 ++++------
 5 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

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2.49.0