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McKenney" , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Rohan McLure , Valentin Schneider Subject: [PATCH v3 1/5] powerpc/smp: Enable Asym packing for cores on shared processor Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:48:36 +0530 Message-ID: <20231026101843.56784-2-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0 In-Reply-To: <20231026101843.56784-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20231026101843.56784-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: b1_Afhd855bKBcsXoZutgBbOx5d4_kg0 X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: aL2h6E4vKUQo0rgGMIpbgHT8PY5JSp1Z X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.272,Aquarius:18.0.980,Hydra:6.0.619,FMLib:17.11.176.26 definitions=2023-10-26_07,2023-10-25_01,2023-05-22_02 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 mlxscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 priorityscore=1501 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 clxscore=1011 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 phishscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2310170001 definitions=main-2310260086 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" If there are shared processor LPARs, underlying Hypervisor can have more virtual cores to handle than actual physical cores. Starting with Power 9, a big core (aka SMT8 core) has 2 nearly independent thread groups. On a shared processors LPARs, it helps to pack threads to lesser number of cores so that the overall system performance and utilization improves. PowerVM schedules at a big core level. Hence packing to fewer cores helps. For example: Lets says there are two 8-core Shared LPARs that are actually sharing a 8 Core shared physical pool, each running 8 threads each. Then Consolidating 8 threads to 4 cores on each LPAR would help them to perform better. This is because each of the LPAR will get 100% time to run applications and there will no switching required by the Hypervisor. To achieve this, enable SD_ASYM_PACKING flag at CACHE, MC and DIE level when the system is running in shared processor mode and has big cores. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju --- Changelog: v1->v2: Using Jump label instead of a variable. v2 -> v3: - Handle comments on commit message (Michael Ellerman) - Rework using existing cpu_has_features static key (Michael Ellerman) - Added a comment on why we do asym_packing at core (Peter Zijlstra) arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c index 5826f5108a12..dbf0a584804b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c @@ -988,18 +988,22 @@ static int __init init_thread_group_cache_map(int cpu= , int cache_property) } =20 static bool shared_caches; +/* + * On shared processor LPARs scheduled on a big core (which has two or more + * independent thread groups per core), prefer lower numbered CPUs, so + * that workload consolidates to lesser number of cores. + */ +static __ro_after_init DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(splpar_asym_pack); =20 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT /* cpumask of CPUs with asymmetric SMT dependency */ static int powerpc_smt_flags(void) { - int flags =3D SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY | SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES; + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ASYM_SMT) || + static_branch_unlikely(&splpar_asym_pack)) + return SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY | SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES | SD_ASYM_PACKING; =20 - if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ASYM_SMT)) { - printk_once(KERN_INFO "Enabling Asymmetric SMT scheduling\n"); - flags |=3D SD_ASYM_PACKING; - } - return flags; + return SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY | SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES; } #endif =20 @@ -1011,9 +1015,20 @@ static int powerpc_smt_flags(void) */ static int powerpc_shared_cache_flags(void) { + if (static_branch_unlikely(&splpar_asym_pack)) + return SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES | SD_ASYM_PACKING; + return SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES; } =20 +static int powerpc_shared_proc_flags(void) +{ + if (static_branch_unlikely(&splpar_asym_pack)) + return SD_ASYM_PACKING; + + return 0; +} + /* * We can't just pass cpu_l2_cache_mask() directly because * returns a non-const pointer and the compiler barfs on that. @@ -1050,8 +1065,8 @@ static struct sched_domain_topology_level powerpc_top= ology[] =3D { { cpu_smt_mask, powerpc_smt_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(SMT) }, #endif { shared_cache_mask, powerpc_shared_cache_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(CACHE) }, - { cpu_mc_mask, SD_INIT_NAME(MC) }, - { cpu_cpu_mask, SD_INIT_NAME(DIE) }, + { cpu_mc_mask, powerpc_shared_proc_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(MC) }, + { cpu_cpu_mask, powerpc_shared_proc_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(DIE) }, { NULL, }, }; =20 @@ -1686,7 +1701,13 @@ static void __init fixup_topology(void) { int i; =20 + if (is_shared_processor() && has_big_cores) + static_branch_enable(&splpar_asym_pack); + #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT + if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ASYM_SMT)) + pr_info_once("Enabling Asymmetric SMT scheduling\n"); + if (has_big_cores) { pr_info("Big cores detected but using small core scheduling\n"); powerpc_topology[smt_idx].mask =3D smallcore_smt_mask; --=20 2.31.1