Re: [PATCH v7 4/8] powerpc/smp: Introduce CONFIG_SCHED_MC to guard MC scheduling bits

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 06:49:29AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 26/08/2025 à 06:13, K Prateek Nayak a écrit :
> > PowerPC enables the MC scheduling domain by default on systems with
> > coregroup support without having a SCHED_MC config in Kconfig.
> > 
> > The scheduler uses CONFIG_SCHED_MC to introduce the MC domain in the
> > default topology (core) and to optimize the default CPU selection
> > routine (sched-ext).
> > 
> > Introduce CONFIG_SCHED_MC for powerpc and note that it should be
> > preferably enabled given the current default behavior. This also ensures
> > PowerPC is tested during future developments that come to depend on
> > CONFIG_SCHED_MC.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
> > ---
> >   arch/powerpc/Kconfig           | 9 +++++++++
> >   arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h | 2 ++
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c      | 4 ++++
> >   3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > index 93402a1d9c9f..e954ab3f635f 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> > @@ -971,6 +971,15 @@ config SCHED_SMT
> >   	  when dealing with POWER5 cpus at a cost of slightly increased
> >   	  overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
> > +config SCHED_MC
> > +	bool "Multi-Core Cache (MC) scheduler support"
> > +	depends on PPC64 && SMP
> > +	default y
> > +	help
> > +	  MC scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision making
> > +	  when dealing with POWER systems that contain multiple Last Level
> > +	  Cache instances on the same socket. If unsure say Y here.
> > +
> 
> You shouldn't duplicate CONFIG_SCHED_MC in every architecture, instead you
> should define a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SCHED_MC in arch/Kconfig that gets selected
> by architectures then have CONFIG_SCHED_MC defined in init/Kconfig or
> kernel/Kconfig or so.

Let me add this first -- it is currently duplicated. Then I'll see about
merging the thing across architectures.