[PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/smp: Add support detecting thread-groups sharing L2 cache
Srikar Dronamraju
srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Dec 15 19:43:42 AEDT 2020
* Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2020-12-10 16:08:58]:
> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> On POWER systems, groups of threads within a core sharing the L2-cache
> can be indicated by the "ibm,thread-groups" property array with the
> identifier "2".
>
> This patch adds support for detecting this, and when present, populate
> the populating the cpu_l2_cache_mask of every CPU to the core-siblings
> which share L2 with the CPU as specified in the by the
> "ibm,thread-groups" property array.
>
> On a platform with the following "ibm,thread-group" configuration
> 00000001 00000002 00000004 00000000
> 00000002 00000004 00000006 00000001
> 00000003 00000005 00000007 00000002
> 00000002 00000004 00000000 00000002
> 00000004 00000006 00000001 00000003
> 00000005 00000007
>
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Srikar Dronamraju
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