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Srikar Dronamraju 5bf63497b8 powerpc/smp: Enable CACHE domain for shared processor
Currently CACHE domain is not enabled on shared processor mode PowerVM
LPARS. On PowerVM systems, 'ibm,thread-group' device-tree property 2
under cpu-device-node indicates which all CPUs share L2-cache. However
'ibm,thread-group' device-tree property 2 is a relatively new property.
In absence of 'ibm,thread-group' property 2, 'l2-cache' device property
under cpu-device-node could help system to identify CPUs sharing L2-cache.
However this property is not exposed by PhyP in shared processor mode
configurations.

In absence of properties that inform OS about which CPUs share L2-cache,
fallback on core boundary.

Here are some stats from Power9 shared LPAR with the changes.

$ lscpu
Architecture:        ppc64le
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              32
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-31
Thread(s) per core:  8
Core(s) per socket:  1
Socket(s):           3
NUMA node(s):        2
Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
Model name:          POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor:   pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache:           32K
L1i cache:           32K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   16-23
NUMA node1 CPU(s):   0-15,24-31
Physical sockets:    2
Physical chips:      1
Physical cores/chip: 10

Before patch
$ grep -r . /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain*/name
Before
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain0/name:SMT
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain1/name:DIE
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain2/name:NUMA

After
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain0/name:SMT
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain1/name:CACHE
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain2/name:DIE
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain3/name:NUMA

$  awk '/domain/{print $1, $2}' /proc/schedstat | sort -u | sed -e 's/00000000,//g'
Before
domain0 00000055
domain0 000000aa
domain0 00005500
domain0 0000aa00
domain0 00550000
domain0 00aa0000
domain0 55000000
domain0 aa000000
domain1 00ff0000
domain1 ff00ffff
domain2 ffffffff

After
domain0 00000055
domain0 000000aa
domain0 00005500
domain0 0000aa00
domain0 00550000
domain0 00aa0000
domain0 55000000
domain0 aa000000
domain1 000000ff
domain1 0000ff00
domain1 00ff0000
domain1 ff000000
domain2 ff00ffff
domain2 ffffffff
domain3 ffffffff

(Lower is better)
perf stat -a -r 5 -n perf bench sched pipe  | tail -n 2
Before
           153.798 +- 0.142 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.09% )

After
           111.545 +- 0.652 seconds time elapsed  ( +-  0.58% )

which is an improvement of 27.47%

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210826100401.412519-4-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
History 2021-08-27 00:56:53 +10:00
arch powerpc/smp: Enable CACHE domain for shared processor 2021-08-27 00:56:53 +10:00
block block-5.14-2021-07-08 2021-07-09 12:05:33 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.13 (2nd) 2021-05-08 10:00:11 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2021-07-09 11:00:44 -07:00
Documentation powerpc/doc: Fix htmldocs errors 2021-08-27 00:56:34 +10:00
drivers cpufreq: powernv: Fix init_chip_info initialization in numa=off 2021-08-13 22:04:25 +10:00
fs Fixes for 5.14-rc: 2021-07-18 11:27:25 -07:00
include ARM: SoC fixes for v5.14 2021-07-17 15:58:24 -07:00
init Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-07-02 12:08:10 -07:00
kernel KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Fix mapping of passthrough interrupts 2021-08-10 23:14:59 +10:00
lib lib/test_hmm: remove set but unused page variable 2021-07-15 10:13:49 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm Revert "mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects" 2021-07-17 13:27:00 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
samples Networking fixes for 5.14-rc2, including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2021-07-14 09:24:32 -07:00
scripts powerpc/bug: Provide better flexibility to WARN_ON/__WARN_FLAGS() with asm goto 2021-08-15 13:49:24 +10:00
security asm-generic/unaligned: Unify asm/unaligned.h around struct helper 2021-07-02 12:43:40 -07:00
sound ASoC: Mediatek: MT8183: Fix fall-through warning for Clang 2021-07-13 14:58:18 -05:00
tools selftests: Skip TM tests on synthetic TM implementations 2021-08-26 21:21:06 +10:00
usr .gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
virt * Allow again loading KVM on 32-bit non-PAE builds 2021-07-15 11:56:07 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap m68k updates for v5.14 2021-06-28 14:01:03 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: move Murali Karicheri to credits 2021-04-29 15:47:30 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update for Paul Gortmaker 2021-08-27 00:48:28 +10:00
Makefile Linux 5.14-rc2 2021-07-18 14:13:49 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.