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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com, tim.c.chen@intel.com, liaoyu15@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/tsc: use topology_max_packages() in tsc watchdog check
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:15:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff269ad9-2811-e427-3bb9-5b4c978e80bf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221017132942.1646934-1-feng.tang@intel.com>

On 10/17/22 06:29, Feng Tang wrote:
> +	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC) &&
> +	    boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC) &&
> +	    boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TSC_ADJUST) &&
> +	    topology_max_packages() <= 2)
> +		clocksource_tsc.flags &= ~CLOCK_SOURCE_MUST_VERIFY;

I couldn't help but notice the comment in here:

> void __init calculate_max_logical_packages(void)
> {
>         int ncpus;
> 
>         /*
>          * Today neither Intel nor AMD support heterogeneous systems so
>          * extrapolate the boot cpu's data to all packages.
>          */
>         ncpus = cpu_data(0).booted_cores * topology_max_smt_threads();
>         __max_logical_packages = DIV_ROUND_UP(total_cpus, ncpus);
>         pr_info("Max logical packages: %u\n", __max_logical_packages);
> }

Could you double check for me that the Alder Lake combination Core/Atom
CPUs don't count as "heterogeneous systems" in this case?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-17 13:29 Feng Tang
2022-10-17 23:15 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2022-10-18  1:07   ` Feng Tang

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