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* [PATCH v8 0/8] hw/arm/virt: Introduce cpu topology support
@ 2021-10-14 13:21 Yanan Wang
  2021-10-14 13:21 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] hw/arm/virt: Only describe cpu topology since virt-6.2 Yanan Wang
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From: Yanan Wang @ 2021-10-14 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Maydell, Andrew Jones, Michael S . Tsirkin, Igor Mammedov
  Cc: qemu-devel, Yanan Wang, Shannon Zhao, qemu-arm, Alistair Francis,
	wanghaibin.wang, David Gibson

Hi,

This is the latest v8 with update in patch #6 and #8. Now only one
generic reference file for PPTT is added in tests/data/acpi/virt.
Machiel and Igor, please help to have a look, thanks!

Description of this series:
Once the view of an accurate virtual cpu topology is provided to guest,
with a well-designed vCPU pinning to the pCPU we may get a huge benefit,
e.g., the scheduling performance improvement. See Dario Faggioli's
research and the related performance tests in [1] for reference.

This patch series introduces cpu topology support for Arm platform.
Both cpu-map in DT and ACPI PPTT table are introduced to store the
topology information. And we only describe the topology information
to 6.2 and newer virt machines, considering compatibility.

[1] https://kvmforum2020.sched.com/event/eE1y/virtual-topology-for-virtual-machines
-friend-or-foe-dario-faggioli-suse

Series tested locally on Arm64 machines kunpeng920.
After booting a Linux guest with "-smp 16,sockets=4,cores=4,threads=1,maxcpus=16",
through lscpu we will see the information about CPU topology like:
Architecture:        aarch64
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Thread(s) per core:  1
Core(s) per socket:  4
Socket(s):           4
NUMA node(s):        1
Vendor ID:           0x48
Model:               0
Stepping:            0x1
BogoMIPS:            200.00
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-15

and with "-smp 16" we will see:
Architecture:        aarch64
Byte Order:          Little Endian
CPU(s):              16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Thread(s) per core:  1
Core(s) per socket:  16
Socket(s):           1
NUMA node(s):        1
Vendor ID:           0x48
Model:               0
Stepping:            0x1
BogoMIPS:            200.00
NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-15

Changelog:
v7->v8:
- rebased on top of master (commit e5b2333f24)
- only add one generic expected file for PPTT instead of four, which works
  fine enough for now (patch #6 and #8 updated)
- v7: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20211007030746.10420-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/

v6->v7:
- rebased on top of master (commit ca61fa4b80)
- use newly introduced acpi_table_begin/acpi_table_end APIs to build PPTT
  (patch #5 updated)
- add reference files for PPTT to fix broken bios-table-test for Aarch64
  virt machine (patch #6-#8 added)
- v6: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210824122016.144364-1-wangyanan55@huawei.com/

Andrew Jones (2):
  hw/arm/virt: Add cpu-map to device tree
  hw/acpi/aml-build: Add PPTT table

Yanan Wang (6):
  hw/arm/virt: Only describe cpu topology since virt-6.2
  device_tree: Add qemu_fdt_add_path
  hw/acpi/aml-build: Add Processor hierarchy node structure
  tests/data/acpi/virt: Add an empty expected file for PPTT
  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Generate PPTT table
  tests/data/acpi/virt: Update the empty expected file for PPTT

 hw/acpi/aml-build.c          |  86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c     |   8 +++-
 hw/arm/virt.c                |  71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h  |   7 +++
 include/hw/arm/virt.h        |   4 +-
 include/sysemu/device_tree.h |   1 +
 softmmu/device_tree.c        |  44 +++++++++++++++++-
 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT    | Bin 0 -> 76 bytes
 8 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/virt/PPTT

--
2.19.1



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2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] device_tree: Add qemu_fdt_add_path Yanan Wang
2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] hw/arm/virt: Add cpu-map to device tree Yanan Wang
2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] hw/acpi/aml-build: Add Processor hierarchy node structure Yanan Wang
2021-10-20  7:43   ` Eric Auger
2021-10-20  9:51     ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-20 10:04       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-10-20 12:32         ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] hw/acpi/aml-build: Add PPTT table Yanan Wang
2021-10-20  8:02   ` Eric Auger
2021-10-20  9:51     ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-20 11:11       ` Eric Auger
2021-10-20 12:27         ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-20 12:43           ` Eric Auger
2021-10-20 12:53             ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-21  9:08               ` Andrew Jones
2021-10-21  9:25                 ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] tests/data/acpi/virt: Add an empty expected file for PPTT Yanan Wang
2021-10-20  1:41   ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-20  7:12   ` Eric Auger
2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Generate PPTT table Yanan Wang
2021-10-20  8:05   ` Eric Auger
2021-10-20  9:51     ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-14 13:22 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] tests/data/acpi/virt: Update the empty expected file for PPTT Yanan Wang
2021-10-20  1:41   ` wangyanan (Y)
2021-10-20  1:41 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] hw/arm/virt: Introduce cpu topology support wangyanan (Y)

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