Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] sched/fair: Introduce sched_smt_siblings_idle()

[Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>]

On 22/11/2022 21:35, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Architectures that implement arch_asym_cpu_priority() may need to know the
> idle state of the SMT siblings of a CPU. The scheduler has this information
> and functionality. Expose it.
> 
> Move the existing functionality outside of the NUMA code.

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> diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> index 0e4251f83807..9517c48df50e 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
> @@ -1052,6 +1052,28 @@ update_stats_curr_start(struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq, struct sched_entity *se)
>   * Scheduling class queueing methods:
>   */
>  
> +static inline bool is_core_idle(int cpu)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> +	int sibling;
> +
> +	for_each_cpu(sibling, cpu_smt_mask(cpu)) {
> +		if (cpu == sibling)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		if (!idle_cpu(sibling))
> +			return false;
> +	}
> +#endif
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
> +bool sched_smt_siblings_idle(int cpu)
> +{
> +	return is_core_idle(cpu);
> +}

Nitpick: Can we not just have one exported function for both use-cases:
NUMA and x86 ITMT?

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