[PATCH v2 0/4] Only generate cluster node in PPTT when specified

Yicong Yang via posted 4 patches 1 year, 6 months ago
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Maintainers: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>, Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>, Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
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hw/acpi/aml-build.c                |   2 +-
hw/core/machine-smp.c              |   3 +++
include/hw/boards.h                |   2 ++
qemu-options.hx                    |   2 ++
tests/data/acpi/virt/APIC.topology | Bin 0 -> 700 bytes
tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.topology | Bin 0 -> 5398 bytes
tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT          | Bin 96 -> 76 bytes
tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT.topology | Bin 0 -> 336 bytes
tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c     |  22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/APIC.topology
create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.topology
create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT.topology
[PATCH v2 0/4] Only generate cluster node in PPTT when specified
Posted by Yicong Yang via 1 year, 6 months ago
From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>

This series mainly change the policy for building a cluster topology node
in PPTT. Previously we'll always build a cluster node in PPTT without
asking the user, after this set the cluster node will be built only the
the user specify through "-smp clusters=X".

One problem is related to this but not fully caused by this, see the
discussion in [*]. When booting the VM with `-smp 8` and 4 numa nodes,
the linux scheduling domains in the VM misses the NUMA domains. It's
because the MC level span extends to Cluster level (which is generated
by the Qemu by default) that spans all the cpus in the system, then the
scheduling domain building stops at MC level since it already includes all
the cpus.

Considering cluster is an optional level and most platforms don't have it,
they may even don't realize this is built and a always build policy cannot
emulate the topology on these platforms. So in this series improve the
policy to only generate cluster when the user explicitly want.

Update the tests and test tables accordingly.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2c079860-ee82-7719-d3d2-756192f41704@huawei.com/

Change since v1:
- Only includes the test tables which is really needed
- Enrich the commit
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220922131143.58003-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/

Yicong Yang (4):
  hw/acpi/aml-build: Only generate cluster node in PPTT when specified
  tests: virt: update expected ACPI tables for virt test
  tests: acpi: aarch64: add topology test for aarch64
  tests: acpi: aarch64: add *.topology tables

 hw/acpi/aml-build.c                |   2 +-
 hw/core/machine-smp.c              |   3 +++
 include/hw/boards.h                |   2 ++
 qemu-options.hx                    |   2 ++
 tests/data/acpi/virt/APIC.topology | Bin 0 -> 700 bytes
 tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.topology | Bin 0 -> 5398 bytes
 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT          | Bin 96 -> 76 bytes
 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT.topology | Bin 0 -> 336 bytes
 tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c     |  22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/APIC.topology
 create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.topology
 create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT.topology

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Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Only generate cluster node in PPTT when specified
Posted by Michael S. Tsirkin 1 year, 6 months ago
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 11:26:09AM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
> 
> This series mainly change the policy for building a cluster topology node
> in PPTT. Previously we'll always build a cluster node in PPTT without
> asking the user, after this set the cluster node will be built only the
> the user specify through "-smp clusters=X".
> 
> One problem is related to this but not fully caused by this, see the
> discussion in [*]. When booting the VM with `-smp 8` and 4 numa nodes,
> the linux scheduling domains in the VM misses the NUMA domains. It's
> because the MC level span extends to Cluster level (which is generated
> by the Qemu by default) that spans all the cpus in the system, then the
> scheduling domain building stops at MC level since it already includes all
> the cpus.
> 
> Considering cluster is an optional level and most platforms don't have it,
> they may even don't realize this is built and a always build policy cannot
> emulate the topology on these platforms. So in this series improve the
> policy to only generate cluster when the user explicitly want.
> 
> Update the tests and test tables accordingly.
> 
> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2c079860-ee82-7719-d3d2-756192f41704@huawei.com/
> 
> Change since v1:
> - Only includes the test tables which is really needed
> - Enrich the commit
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220922131143.58003-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/


Looks superficually ok. ARM maintainers? Ack? Will you take this
or want me to?

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>



> Yicong Yang (4):
>   hw/acpi/aml-build: Only generate cluster node in PPTT when specified
>   tests: virt: update expected ACPI tables for virt test
>   tests: acpi: aarch64: add topology test for aarch64
>   tests: acpi: aarch64: add *.topology tables
> 
>  hw/acpi/aml-build.c                |   2 +-
>  hw/core/machine-smp.c              |   3 +++
>  include/hw/boards.h                |   2 ++
>  qemu-options.hx                    |   2 ++
>  tests/data/acpi/virt/APIC.topology | Bin 0 -> 700 bytes
>  tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.topology | Bin 0 -> 5398 bytes
>  tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT          | Bin 96 -> 76 bytes
>  tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT.topology | Bin 0 -> 336 bytes
>  tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c     |  22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  9 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/APIC.topology
>  create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/DSDT.topology
>  create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT.topology
> 
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> 2.24.0