powerpc/smp: Enable CACHE domain for shared processor
Currently CACHE domain is not enabled on shared processor mode PowerVM LPARS. On PowerVM systems, 'ibm,thread-group' device-tree property 2 under cpu-device-node indicates which all CPUs share L2-cache. However 'ibm,thread-group' device-tree property 2 is a relatively new property. In absence of 'ibm,thread-group' property 2, 'l2-cache' device property under cpu-device-node could help system to identify CPUs sharing L2-cache. However this property is not exposed by PhyP in shared processor mode configurations. In absence of properties that inform OS about which CPUs share L2-cache, fallback on core boundary. Here are some stats from Power9 shared LPAR with the changes. $ lscpu Architecture: ppc64le Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 32 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-31 Thread(s) per core: 8 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 3 NUMA node(s): 2 Model: 2.2 (pvr 004e 0202) Model name: POWER9 (architected), altivec supported Hypervisor vendor: pHyp Virtualization type: para L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 16-23 NUMA node1 CPU(s): 0-15,24-31 Physical sockets: 2 Physical chips: 1 Physical cores/chip: 10 Before patch $ grep -r . /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain*/name Before /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain0/name:SMT /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain1/name:DIE /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain2/name:NUMA After /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain0/name:SMT /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain1/name:CACHE /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain2/name:DIE /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain3/name:NUMA $ awk '/domain/{print $1, $2}' /proc/schedstat | sort -u | sed -e 's/00000000,//g' Before domain0 00000055 domain0 000000aa domain0 00005500 domain0 0000aa00 domain0 00550000 domain0 00aa0000 domain0 55000000 domain0 aa000000 domain1 00ff0000 domain1 ff00ffff domain2 ffffffff After domain0 00000055 domain0 000000aa domain0 00005500 domain0 0000aa00 domain0 00550000 domain0 00aa0000 domain0 55000000 domain0 aa000000 domain1 000000ff domain1 0000ff00 domain1 00ff0000 domain1 ff000000 domain2 ff00ffff domain2 ffffffff domain3 ffffffff (Lower is better) perf stat -a -r 5 -n perf bench sched pipe | tail -n 2 Before 153.798 +- 0.142 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.09% ) After 111.545 +- 0.652 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.58% ) which is an improvement of 27.47% Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210826100401.412519-4-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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