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Some systems benefit from the same policy, but their firmware cannot currently describe the preference. Inferring it from the CPU model would embed a platform-specific policy in the kernel. Add the sched_smt_asym_packing boot option to override SD_ASYM_PACKING at the SMT level. Accept auto, on and off. Auto preserves the architecture-provided topology and is also the default when the option is absent. On and off force the flag without changing asymmetric packing at higher topology levels. Apply the override centrally to domains with SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY so it also covers architectures with custom SMT topology callbacks, including powerpc. When forced on, priority remains defined by arch_asym_cpu_priority(). The weak default prefers lower-numbered logical CPUs, while architecture overrides remain authoritative. Siblings with equal priorities remain unordered. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi --- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++ kernel/sched/topology.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 33cd30996e47e..36c3b2e563441 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -6799,6 +6799,17 @@ Kernel parameters solution to mutex-based priority inversion. Format: + sched_smt_asym_packing= [KNL,SMP] + Override asymmetric packing at the SMT scheduling domain. + Format: { auto | on | off } + auto: Preserve the architecture default. This is the + default when the option is omitted. + on: Force asymmetric packing at the SMT scheduling domain. + Idle CPU selection prefers siblings with a higher + architecture-defined priority. Siblings with equal + priorities remain unordered. + off: Ignore SMT sibling priorities. + sched_verbose [KNL,EARLY] Enables verbose scheduler debug messages. schedstats= [KNL,X86] Enable or disable scheduled statistics. diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c index 0248227d983a7..cdfcecf673fd7 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c @@ -32,6 +32,46 @@ static int __init sched_debug_setup(char *str) } early_param("sched_verbose", sched_debug_setup); +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT +enum sched_smt_asym_packing_mode { + SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_AUTO, + SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_ON, + SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_OFF, + SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_NR, +}; + +static enum sched_smt_asym_packing_mode sched_smt_asym_packing __read_mostly = + SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_AUTO; + +static const char * const sched_smt_asym_packing_modes[SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_NR] = { + [SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_AUTO] = "auto", + [SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_ON] = "on", + [SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_OFF] = "off", +}; + +static int __init sched_smt_asym_packing_parse(const char *str) +{ + for (int mode = 0; mode < SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_NR; mode++) { + if (!strcmp(str, sched_smt_asym_packing_modes[mode])) + return mode; + } + + return -EINVAL; +} + +static int __init setup_sched_smt_asym_packing(char *str) +{ + int mode = sched_smt_asym_packing_parse(str); + + if (mode < 0) + return 0; + + sched_smt_asym_packing = mode; + return 1; +} +__setup("sched_smt_asym_packing=", setup_sched_smt_asym_packing); +#endif + static inline bool sched_debug(void) { return sched_debug_verbose; @@ -1950,6 +1990,15 @@ sd_init(struct sched_domain_topology_level *tl, if (WARN_ONCE(sd_flags & ~TOPOLOGY_SD_FLAGS, "wrong sd_flags in topology description\n")) sd_flags &= TOPOLOGY_SD_FLAGS; +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT + if (sd_flags & SD_SHARE_CPUCAPACITY) { + if (sched_smt_asym_packing == SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_ON) + sd_flags |= SD_ASYM_PACKING; + else if (sched_smt_asym_packing == + SCHED_SMT_ASYM_PACKING_OFF) + sd_flags &= ~SD_ASYM_PACKING; + } +#endif sd_flags |= asym_cpu_capacity_classify(sd_span, cpu_map); *sd = (struct sched_domain){ -- 2.55.0