Ampere Altra defines CPU clusters in the ACPI PPTT. They share a Snoop
Control Unit, but have no shared CPU-side last level cache.
cpu_coregroup_mask() will return a cpumask with weight 1, while
cpu_clustergroup_mask() will return a cpumask with weight 2.
As a result, build_sched_domain() will BUG() once per CPU with:
BUG: arch topology borken
the CLS domain not a subset of the MC domain
The MC level cpumask is then extended to that of the CLS child, and is
later removed entirely as redundant. This sched domain topology is an
improvement over previous topologies, or those built without
SCHED_CLUSTER, particularly for certain latency sensitive workloads.
With the current scheduler model and heuristics, this is a desirable
default topology for Ampere Altra and Altra Max system.
Rather than create a custom sched domains topology structure and
introduce new logic in arch/arm64 to detect these systems, update the
core_mask so coregroup is never a subset of clustergroup, extending it
to cluster_siblings if necessary. Only do this if CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER
is enabled to avoid also changing the topology (MC) when
CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER is disabled.
This has the added benefit over a custom topology of working for both
symmetric and asymmetric topologies. It does not address systems where
the CLUSTER topology is above a populated MC topology, but these are not
considered today and can be addressed separately if and when they
appear.
The final sched domain topology for a 2 socket Ampere Altra system is
unchanged with or without CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER, and the BUG is avoided:
For CPU0:
CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER=y
CLS [0-1]
DIE [0-79]
NUMA [0-159]
CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER is not set
DIE [0-79]
NUMA [0-159]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: D. Scott Phillips <scott@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.16.x
Suggested-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c8fe9fce7c86ed56b4c455b8c902982dc2303868.1649696956.git.darren@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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