[PATCH v5 0/2] powerpc: Detection and scheduler optimization for POWER9 bigcore

[PATCH v5 0/2] powerpc: Detection and scheduler optimization for POWER9 bigcore

[Gautham R. Shenoy]

From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Hi,

This is the fifth iteration of the patchset to add support for
big-core on POWER9.

The previous versions can be found here:

v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/24/79
v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/6/255
v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/3/401
v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/11/245

Changes :

v4 --> v5:
   - Patch 2 is entirely different: Instead of using CPU_FTR_ASYM_SMT
     feature, use the small core siblings at the SMT level
     sched-domain. This was suggested by Nicholas Piggin and Michael
     Ellerman.

   - A more detailed description follows below.

v3 --> v4:
   - Build fix for powerpc-g5 : Enable CPU_FTR_ASYM_SMT only on
     CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV and CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES.
   - Fixed a minor error in the ABI description.

v2 --> v3
    - Set sane values in the tg->property, tg->nr_groups inside
    parse_thread_groups before returning due to an error.
    - Define a helper function to determine whether a CPU device node
      is a big-core or not.
    - Updated the comments around the functions to describe the
      arguments passed to them.

v1 --> v2
    - Added comments explaining the "ibm,thread-groups" device tree property.
    - Uses cleaner device-tree parsing functions to parse the u32 arrays.
    - Adds a sysfs file listing the small-core siblings for every CPU.
    - Enables the scheduler optimization by setting the CPU_FTR_ASYM_SMT bit
      in the cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features on detecting the presence
      of interleaved big-core.
    - Handles the corner case where there is only a single thread-group
      or when there is a single thread in a thread-group.

Description:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A pair of IBM POWER9 SMT4 cores can be fused together to form a
big-core with 8 SMT threads. This can be discovered via the
"ibm,thread-groups" CPU property in the device tree which will
indicate which group of threads that share the L1 cache, translation
cache and instruction data flow.  If there are multiple such group of
threads, then the core is a big-core. Furthermore, on POWER9 the thread-ids of
such a big-core is obtained by interleaving the thread-ids of the
component SMT4 cores.

Eg: Threads in the pair of component SMT4 cores of an interleaved
big-core are numbered {0,2,4,6} and {1,3,5,7} respectively.

	   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  0  |  2  |  4  |  6   |   Small Core0
           |     |     |     |      |
Big Core   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  1  |  3  |  5  |  7   |   Small Core1
           |     |     |     |      |
           --------------------------

On such a big-core system, when multiple tasks are scheduled to run on
the big-core, we get the best performance when the tasks are spread
across the pair of SMT4 cores.

Eg: Suppose there 4 tasks {p1, p2, p3, p4} are run on a big core, then

An Example of Optimal Task placement:
	   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  0  |  2  |  4  |  6   |   Small Core0
           | (p1)| (p2)|     |      |
Big Core   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  1  |  3  |  5  |  7   |   Small Core1
           |     | (p3)|     | (p4) |
           --------------------------

An example of Suboptimal Task placement:
	   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  0  |  2  |  4  |  6   |   Small Core0
           | (p1)| (p2)|     |  (p4)|
Big Core   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  1  |  3  |  5  |  7   |   Small Core1
           |     | (p3)|     |      |
           --------------------------

In order to achieve optimal task placement, on big-core systems, we
define the he SMT level sched-domain to consist of the threads
belonging to the small cores. With this, the Linux Kernel
load-balancer will ensure that the tasks are spread across all the
component small cores in the system, thereby yielding optimum
performance.

Furthermore, this solution works correctly across all SMT modes
(8,4,2), as the interleaved thread-ids ensures that when we go to
lower SMT modes (4,2) the threads are offlined in a descending order,
thereby leaving equal number of threads from the component small cores
online as illustrated below.

With Patches: (ppc64_cpu --smt=on) : SMT domain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0,2,4,6 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=294 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=294 },
           4:{ span=4 cap=294 }, 6:{ span=6 cap=294 }
 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=1,3,5,7 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=294 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=294 },
           5:{ span=5 cap=294 }, 7:{ span=7 cap=294 }

            Optimal Task placement (SMT 8)
	   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  0  |  2  |  4  |  6   |   Small Core0
           | (p1)| (p2)|     |      |
Big Core   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  1  |  3  |  5  |  7   |   Small Core1
           |     | (p3)|     | (p4) |
           --------------------------

With Patches : (ppc64_cpu --smt=4) : SMT domain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0,2 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=589 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=589 }
 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=1,3 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=589 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=589 }

            Optimal Task placement (SMT 4)
	   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  0  |  2  |  4  |  6   |   Small Core0
           | (p1)| (p2)| Off | Off  |
Big Core   --------------------------
           |     |     |     |      |
           |  1  |  3  |  5  |  7   |   Small Core1
           | (p4)| (p3)| Off | Off  |
           --------------------------

With Patches : (ppc64_cpu --smt=2) : SMT domain ceases to exist.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
            Optimal Task placement (SMT 2)
	   --------------------------
           | (p2)|     |     |      |
           |  0  |  2  |  4  |  6   |   Small Core0
           | (p1)| Off | Off | Off  |
Big Core   --------------------------
           | (p3)|     |     |      |
           |  1  |  3  |  5  |  7   |   Small Core1
           | (p4)| Off | Off | Off  |
           --------------------------

Thus, as an added advantage in SMT=2 mode, we will only have 2 levels
in the sched-domain topology (DIE and NUMA).

The SMT levels, without the patches are as follows.

Without Patches: (ppc64_cpu --smt=on) : SMT domain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0-7 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=147 }, 1:{ span=1 cap=147 },
           2:{ span=2 cap=147 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=147 },
           4:{ span=4 cap=147 }, 5:{ span=5 cap=147 },
	   6:{ span=6 cap=147 }, 7:{ span=7 cap=147 }
 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0-7 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=147 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=147 },
           3:{ span=3 cap=147 }, 4:{ span=4 cap=147 },
	   5:{ span=5 cap=147 }, 6:{ span=6 cap=147 },
	   7:{ span=7 cap=147 }, 0:{ span=0 cap=147 }

Without Patches: (ppc64_cpu --smt=4) : SMT domain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0-3 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=294 }, 1:{ span=1 cap=294 },
           2:{ span=2 cap=294 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=294 },
 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0-3 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=294 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=294 },
           3:{ span=3 cap=294 }, 0:{ span=0 cap=294 }

Without Patches: (ppc64_cpu --smt=2) : SMT domain
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0-1 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=589 }, 1:{ span=1 cap=589 },

 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0-1 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=589 }, 0:{ span=0 cap=589 },

This patchset contains two patches which on detecting the presence of
big-cores, defines the SMT level sched domain to correspond to the
threads of the small cores.

Patch 1: adds support to detect the presence of
big-cores and reports the small-core siblings of each CPU X
via the sysfs file "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/small_core_siblings".

Patch 2: Defines the SMT level sched domain to correspond to the
threads of the small cores.

Results:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Experimental results for ebizzy with 2 threads, bound to a single big-core
show a marked improvement with this patchset over the 4.18-rc5 vanilla
kernel.

The result of 100 such runs for 4.18-rc7 kernel and the 4.18-rc7 +
big-core-smt-patches are as follows

4.18.0-rc7 vanilla
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        records/s    :  # samples  : Histogram
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[      0 - 1000000]  :      0      : #
[1000000 - 2000000]  :      3      : #
[2000000 - 3000000]  :      7      : ##
[3000000 - 4000000]  :      26     : ######
[4000000 - 5000000]  :      4      : #
[5000000 - 6000000]  :      60     : #############

4.18.0-rc7 + big-core-smt-patches
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        records/s    :  # samples  : Histogram
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[      0 - 1000000]  :      0      : #
[1000000 - 2000000]  :      0      : #
[2000000 - 3000000]  :      11     : ###
[3000000 - 4000000]  :      0      : #
[4000000 - 5000000]  :      0      : #
[5000000 - 6000000]  :      89     : ##################


Gautham R. Shenoy (2):
  powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm,thread-groups"
  powerpc: Use cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask at SMT level on bigcores

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   8 ++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h              |  22 +++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h                     |   6 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c                 | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c                          |  55 +++++++-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c                        |  35 +++++
 6 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.4

[PATCH v5 1/2] powerpc: Detect the presence of big-cores via "ibm,thread-groups"

[Gautham R. Shenoy]

From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On IBM POWER9, the device tree exposes a property array identifed by
"ibm,thread-groups" which will indicate which groups of threads share a
particular set of resources.

As of today we only have one form of grouping identifying the group of
threads in the core that share the L1 cache, translation cache and
instruction data flow.

This patch defines the helper function to parse the contents of
"ibm,thread-groups" and a new structure to contain the parsed output.

The patch also creates the sysfs file named "small_core_siblings" that
returns the physical ids of the threads in the core that share the L1
cache, translation cache and instruction data flow.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu |   8 ++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h              |  22 +++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c                 | 154 +++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c                        |  35 +++++
 4 files changed, 219 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index 9c5e7732..52c9b50 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -487,3 +487,11 @@ Description:	Information about CPU vulnerabilities
 		"Not affected"	  CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
 		"Vulnerable"	  CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect
 		"Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect
+
+What: 		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]+/small_core_siblings
+Date:		06-Aug-2018
+KernelVersion:	v4.19.0
+Contact:	Linux for PowerPC mailing list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
+Description:	List of Physical ids of CPUs which share the L1 cache,
+		translation cache and instruction data-flow with this CPU.
+Values:		Comma separated list of decimal integers.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h
index d71a909..33226d7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h
@@ -23,11 +23,13 @@
 extern int threads_per_core;
 extern int threads_per_subcore;
 extern int threads_shift;
+extern bool has_big_cores;
 extern cpumask_t threads_core_mask;
 #else
 #define threads_per_core	1
 #define threads_per_subcore	1
 #define threads_shift		0
+#define has_big_cores		0
 #define threads_core_mask	(*get_cpu_mask(0))
 #endif
 
@@ -69,12 +71,32 @@ static inline cpumask_t cpu_online_cores_map(void)
 	return cpu_thread_mask_to_cores(cpu_online_mask);
 }
 
+#define MAX_THREAD_LIST_SIZE	8
+struct thread_groups {
+	unsigned int property;
+	unsigned int nr_groups;
+	unsigned int threads_per_group;
+	unsigned int thread_list[MAX_THREAD_LIST_SIZE];
+};
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 int cpu_core_index_of_thread(int cpu);
 int cpu_first_thread_of_core(int core);
+int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn, struct thread_groups *tg);
+int get_cpu_thread_group_start(int cpu, struct thread_groups *tg);
 #else
 static inline int cpu_core_index_of_thread(int cpu) { return cpu; }
 static inline int cpu_first_thread_of_core(int core) { return core; }
+static inline int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn,
+				      struct thread_groups *tg)
+{
+	return -ENODATA;
+}
+
+static inline int get_cpu_thread_group_start(int cpu, struct thread_groups *tg)
+{
+	return -1;
+}
 #endif
 
 static inline int cpu_thread_in_core(int cpu)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 40b44bb..989edc1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -402,10 +402,12 @@ void __init check_for_initrd(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
 int threads_per_core, threads_per_subcore, threads_shift;
+bool has_big_cores;
 cpumask_t threads_core_mask;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_per_core);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_per_subcore);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_shift);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(has_big_cores);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(threads_core_mask);
 
 static void __init cpu_init_thread_core_maps(int tpc)
@@ -433,6 +435,152 @@ static void __init cpu_init_thread_core_maps(int tpc)
 
 u32 *cpu_to_phys_id = NULL;
 
+/*
+ * parse_thread_groups: Parses the "ibm,thread-groups" device tree
+ *                      property for the CPU device node @dn and stores
+ *                      the parsed output in the thread_groups
+ *                      structure @tg.
+ *
+ * @dn: The device node of the CPU device.
+ * @tg: Pointer to a thread group structure into which the parsed
+ *     output of "ibm,thread-groups" is stored.
+ *
+ * ibm,thread-groups[0..N-1] array defines which group of threads in
+ * the CPU-device node can be grouped together based on the property.
+ *
+ * ibm,thread-groups[0] tells us the property based on which the
+ * threads are being grouped together. If this value is 1, it implies
+ * that the threads in the same group share L1, translation cache.
+ *
+ * ibm,thread-groups[1] tells us how many such thread groups exist.
+ *
+ * ibm,thread-groups[2] tells us the number of threads in each such
+ * group.
+ *
+ * ibm,thread-groups[3..N-1] is the list of threads identified by
+ * "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s" arranged as per their membership in
+ * the grouping.
+ *
+ * Example: If ibm,thread-groups = [1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] it
+ * implies that there are 2 groups of 4 threads each, where each group
+ * of threads share L1, translation cache.
+ *
+ * The "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s" of the first group is {5,6,7,8}
+ * and the "ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s" of the second group is {9, 10,
+ * 11, 12} structure
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -EINVAL if the property does not exist,
+ * -ENODATA if property does not have a value, and -EOVERFLOW if the
+ * property data isn't large enough.
+ */
+int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn,
+			struct thread_groups *tg)
+{
+	unsigned int nr_groups, threads_per_group, property;
+	int i;
+	u32 thread_group_array[3 + MAX_THREAD_LIST_SIZE];
+	u32 *thread_list;
+	size_t total_threads;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn, "ibm,thread-groups",
+					 thread_group_array, 3);
+
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_err;
+
+	property = thread_group_array[0];
+	nr_groups = thread_group_array[1];
+	threads_per_group = thread_group_array[2];
+	total_threads = nr_groups * threads_per_group;
+
+	ret = of_property_read_u32_array(dn, "ibm,thread-groups",
+					 thread_group_array,
+					 3 + total_threads);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out_err;
+
+	thread_list = &thread_group_array[3];
+
+	for (i = 0 ; i < total_threads; i++)
+		tg->thread_list[i] = thread_list[i];
+
+	tg->property = property;
+	tg->nr_groups = nr_groups;
+	tg->threads_per_group = threads_per_group;
+
+	return 0;
+out_err:
+	tg->property = 0;
+	tg->nr_groups = 0;
+	tg->threads_per_group = 0;
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * dt_has_big_core : Parses the device tree property
+ *		    "ibm,thread-groups" for device node pointed by @dn
+ *		    and stores the parsed output in the structure
+ *		    pointed to by @tg.  Then checks if the output in
+ *		    @tg corresponds to a big-core.
+ *
+ * @dn: Device node pointer of the CPU node being checked for a
+ *      big-core.
+ * @tg: Pointer to thread_groups struct in which parsed output of
+ *      "ibm,thread-groups" is recorded.
+ *
+ * Returns true if the @dn points to a big-core.
+ * Returns false if there is an error in parsing "ibm,thread-groups"
+ * or the parsed output doesn't correspond to a big-core.
+ */
+static inline bool dt_has_big_core(struct device_node *dn,
+				   struct thread_groups *tg)
+{
+	if (parse_thread_groups(dn, tg))
+		return false;
+
+	if (tg->property != 1)
+		return false;
+
+	if (tg->nr_groups < 1)
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * get_cpu_thread_group_start : Searches the thread group in tg->thread_list
+ *                              that @cpu belongs to.
+ *
+ * @cpu : The logical CPU whose thread group is being searched.
+ * @tg : The thread-group structure of the CPU node which @cpu belongs
+ *       to.
+ *
+ * Returns the index to tg->thread_list that points to the the start
+ * of the thread_group that @cpu belongs to.
+ *
+ * Returns -1 if cpu doesn't belong to any of the groups pointed to by
+ * tg->thread_list.
+ */
+int get_cpu_thread_group_start(int cpu, struct thread_groups *tg)
+{
+	int hw_cpu_id = get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu);
+	int i, j;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < tg->nr_groups; i++) {
+		int group_start = i * tg->threads_per_group;
+
+		for (j = 0; j < tg->threads_per_group; j++) {
+			int idx = group_start + j;
+
+			if (tg->thread_list[idx] == hw_cpu_id)
+				return group_start;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return -1;
+}
+
 /**
  * setup_cpu_maps - initialize the following cpu maps:
  *                  cpu_possible_mask
@@ -457,6 +605,7 @@ void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
 	int cpu = 0;
 	int nthreads = 1;
 
+	has_big_cores = true;
 	DBG("smp_setup_cpu_maps()\n");
 
 	cpu_to_phys_id = __va(memblock_alloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(u32),
@@ -467,6 +616,7 @@ void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
 		const __be32 *intserv;
 		__be32 cpu_be;
 		int j, len;
+		struct thread_groups tg;
 
 		DBG("  * %pOF...\n", dn);
 
@@ -505,6 +655,10 @@ void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
 			cpu++;
 		}
 
+		if (has_big_cores && !dt_has_big_core(dn, &tg)) {
+			has_big_cores = false;
+		}
+
 		if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
 			of_node_put(dn);
 			break;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
index 755dc98..f5717de 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <asm/smp.h>
 #include <asm/pmc.h>
 #include <asm/firmware.h>
+#include <asm/cputhreads.h>
 
 #include "cacheinfo.h"
 #include "setup.h"
@@ -1025,6 +1026,33 @@ static ssize_t show_physical_id(struct device *dev,
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(physical_id, 0444, show_physical_id, NULL);
 
+static ssize_t show_small_core_siblings(struct device *dev,
+					struct device_attribute *attr,
+					char *buf)
+{
+	struct cpu *cpu = container_of(dev, struct cpu, dev);
+	struct device_node *dn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu->dev.id, NULL);
+	struct thread_groups tg;
+	int i, j;
+	ssize_t ret = 0;
+
+	if (parse_thread_groups(dn, &tg))
+		return -ENODATA;
+
+	i = get_cpu_thread_group_start(cpu->dev.id, &tg);
+
+	if (i == -1)
+		return -ENODATA;
+
+	for (j = 0; j < tg.threads_per_group - 1; j++)
+		ret += sprintf(buf + ret, "%d,", tg.thread_list[i + j]);
+
+	ret += sprintf(buf + ret, "%d\n", tg.thread_list[i + j]);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(small_core_siblings, 0444, show_small_core_siblings, NULL);
+
 static int __init topology_init(void)
 {
 	int cpu, r;
@@ -1048,6 +1076,13 @@ static int __init topology_init(void)
 			register_cpu(c, cpu);
 
 			device_create_file(&c->dev, &dev_attr_physical_id);
+
+			if (has_big_cores) {
+				const struct device_attribute *attr =
+				       &dev_attr_small_core_siblings;
+
+			       device_create_file(&c->dev, attr);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	r = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "powerpc/topology:online",
-- 
1.9.4

[PATCH v5 2/2] powerpc: Use cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask at SMT level on bigcores

[Gautham R. Shenoy]

From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Each of the SMT4 cores forming a big-core are more or less independent
units. Thus when multiple tasks are scheduled to run on the fused
core, we get the best performance when the tasks are spread across the
pair of SMT4 cores.

This patch achieves this by setting the SMT level mask to correspond
to the smallcore sibling mask on big-core systems.

With this patch, the SMT sched-domain with SMT=8,4,2 on big-core
systems are as follows:

1) ppc64_cpu --smt=8

 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0,2,4,6 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=294 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=294 },
           4:{ span=4 cap=294 }, 6:{ span=6 cap=294 }
 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=1,3,5,7 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=294 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=294 },
           5:{ span=5 cap=294 }, 7:{ span=7 cap=294 }

2) ppc64_cpu --smt=4

 CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=0,2 level=SMT
   groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=589 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=589 }
 CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s):
  domain-0: span=1,3 level=SMT
   groups: 1:{ span=1 cap=589 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=589 }

3) ppc64_cpu --smt=2
   SMT domain ceases to exist as each domain consists of just one
   group.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h |  6 +++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c      | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
index 29ffaab..30798c7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ static inline void set_hard_smp_processor_id(int cpu, int phys)
 #endif
 
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_sibling_map);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_smallcore_sibling_map);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_l2_cache_map);
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_core_map);
 
@@ -107,6 +108,11 @@ static inline struct cpumask *cpu_sibling_mask(int cpu)
 	return per_cpu(cpu_sibling_map, cpu);
 }
 
+static inline struct cpumask *cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(int cpu)
+{
+	return per_cpu(cpu_smallcore_sibling_map, cpu);
+}
+
 static inline struct cpumask *cpu_core_mask(int cpu)
 {
 	return per_cpu(cpu_core_map, cpu);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 4794d6b..ea3b306 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -76,10 +76,12 @@
 struct thread_info *secondary_ti;
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_sibling_map);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_smallcore_sibling_map);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_l2_cache_map);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(cpumask_var_t, cpu_core_map);
 
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_sibling_map);
+EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_smallcore_sibling_map);
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_l2_cache_map);
 EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_core_map);
 
@@ -689,6 +691,9 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&per_cpu(cpu_sibling_map, cpu),
 					GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
+		zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&per_cpu(cpu_smallcore_sibling_map,
+						 cpu),
+					GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
 		zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&per_cpu(cpu_l2_cache_map, cpu),
 					GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
 		zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&per_cpu(cpu_core_map, cpu),
@@ -707,6 +712,10 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
 	cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_sibling_mask(boot_cpuid));
 	cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_l2_cache_mask(boot_cpuid));
 	cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_core_mask(boot_cpuid));
+	if (has_big_cores) {
+		cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid,
+				cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(boot_cpuid));
+	}
 
 	if (smp_ops && smp_ops->probe)
 		smp_ops->probe();
@@ -991,6 +1000,10 @@ static void remove_cpu_from_masks(int cpu)
 		set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i, cpu_core_mask);
 		set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i, cpu_l2_cache_mask);
 		set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i, cpu_sibling_mask);
+		if (has_big_cores) {
+			set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i,
+					   cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask);
+		}
 	}
 }
 #endif
@@ -999,7 +1012,17 @@ static void add_cpu_to_masks(int cpu)
 {
 	int first_thread = cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu);
 	int chipid = cpu_to_chip_id(cpu);
-	int i;
+
+	struct thread_groups tg;
+	int i, cpu_group_start = -1;
+
+	if (has_big_cores) {
+		struct device_node *dn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
+
+		parse_thread_groups(dn, &tg);
+		cpu_group_start = get_cpu_thread_group_start(cpu, &tg);
+		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(cpu));
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * This CPU will not be in the online mask yet so we need to manually
@@ -1007,9 +1030,21 @@ static void add_cpu_to_masks(int cpu)
 	 */
 	cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_sibling_mask(cpu));
 
-	for (i = first_thread; i < first_thread + threads_per_core; i++)
-		if (cpu_online(i))
-			set_cpus_related(i, cpu, cpu_sibling_mask);
+	for (i = first_thread; i < first_thread + threads_per_core; i++) {
+		int i_group_start;
+
+		if (!cpu_online(i))
+			continue;
+
+		set_cpus_related(i, cpu, cpu_sibling_mask);
+
+		if (!has_big_cores)
+			continue;
+
+		i_group_start = get_cpu_thread_group_start(i, &tg);
+		if (i_group_start == cpu_group_start)
+			set_cpus_related(i, cpu, cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask);
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Copy the thread sibling mask into the cache sibling mask
@@ -1136,6 +1171,11 @@ static const struct cpumask *shared_cache_mask(int cpu)
 	return cpu_l2_cache_mask(cpu);
 }
 
+static const struct cpumask *smallcore_smt_mask(int cpu)
+{
+	return cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(cpu);
+}
+
 static struct sched_domain_topology_level power9_topology[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
 	{ cpu_smt_mask, powerpc_smt_flags, SD_INIT_NAME(SMT) },
@@ -1158,6 +1198,13 @@ void __init smp_cpus_done(unsigned int max_cpus)
 
 	dump_numa_cpu_topology();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
+	if (has_big_cores) {
+		pr_info("Using small cores at SMT level\n");
+		power9_topology[0].mask = smallcore_smt_mask;
+		powerpc_topology[0].mask = smallcore_smt_mask;
+	}
+#endif
 	/*
 	 * If any CPU detects that it's sharing a cache with another CPU then
 	 * use the deeper topology that is aware of this sharing.
-- 
1.9.4

Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] powerpc: Use cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask at SMT level on bigcores

[kbuild test robot]

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Hi Gautham,

Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve:

[auto build test ERROR on powerpc/next]
[also build test ERROR on v4.18-rc8 next-20180806]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Gautham-R-Shenoy/powerpc-Detect-the-presence-of-big-cores-via-ibm-thread-groups/20180807-075133
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git next
config: powerpc-pasemi_defconfig (attached as .config)
compiler: powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 7.2.0-11) 7.2.0
reproduce:
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        GCC_VERSION=7.2.0 make.cross ARCH=powerpc 

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

>> arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c:1178:30: error: 'smallcore_smt_mask' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
    static const struct cpumask *smallcore_smt_mask(int cpu)
                                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

vim +/smallcore_smt_mask +1178 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c

  1177	
> 1178	static const struct cpumask *smallcore_smt_mask(int cpu)
  1179	{
  1180		return cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(cpu);
  1181	}
  1182	

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