[PATCH 04/11] powerpc/smp: Enable small core scheduling sooner

[Jordan Niethe]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:44 PM Srikar Dronamraju
<srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Enable small core scheduling as soon as we detect that we are in a
> system that supports thread group. Doing so would avoid a redundant
> check.
>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele at au1.ibm.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin at au1.ibm.com>
> Cc: Oliver OHalloran <oliveroh at au1.ibm.com>
> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton at au1.ibm.com>
> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy at linux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> index 24529f6134aa..7d430fc536cc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -892,6 +892,12 @@ static int init_big_cores(void)
>         }
>
>         has_big_cores = true;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +       pr_info("Big cores detected. Using small core scheduling\n");
Why change the wording from "Big cores detected but using small core
scheduling\n"?
> +       powerpc_topology[0].mask = smallcore_smt_mask;
> +#endif
> +
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> @@ -1383,12 +1389,6 @@ void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
>
>         dump_numa_cpu_topology();
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> -       if (has_big_cores) {
> -               pr_info("Big cores detected but using small core scheduling\n");
> -               powerpc_topology[0].mask = smallcore_smt_mask;
> -       }
> -#endif
>         set_sched_topology(powerpc_topology);
>  }
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>