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authorSiddha, Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2006-03-27 01:15:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-27 08:44:43 -0800
commit1e9f28fa1eb9773bf65bae08288c6a0a38eef4a7 (patch)
treeccfa4927ebc7a8f663f9ac9e7789a713a33253ff /include/asm-x86_64
parent[PATCH] Small schedule() optimization (diff)
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[PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-core
Add a new sched domain for representing multi-core with shared caches between cores. Consider a dual package system, each package containing two cores and with last level cache shared between cores with in a package. If there are two runnable processes, with this appended patch those two processes will be scheduled on different packages. On such systems, with this patch we have observed 8% perf improvement with specJBB(2 warehouse) benchmark and 35% improvement with CFP2000 rate(with 2 users). This new domain will come into play only on multi-core systems with shared caches. On other systems, this sched domain will be removed by domain degeneration code. This new domain can be also used for implementing power savings policy (see OLS 2005 CMP kernel scheduler paper for more details.. I will post another patch for power savings policy soon) Most of the arch/* file changes are for cpu_coregroup_map() implementation. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86_64')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/processor.h4
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/smp.h1
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/topology.h2
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
index 8c8d88c036ed..1aa2cee43344 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <asm/mmsegment.h>
#include <asm/percpu.h>
#include <linux/personality.h>
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#define TF_MASK 0x00000100
#define IF_MASK 0x00000200
@@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86 {
__u32 x86_power;
__u32 extended_cpuid_level; /* Max extended CPUID function supported */
unsigned long loops_per_jiffy;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ cpumask_t llc_shared_map; /* cpus sharing the last level cache */
+#endif
__u8 apicid;
__u8 booted_cores; /* number of cores as seen by OS */
} ____cacheline_aligned;
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h b/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h
index 9ccbb2cfd5c0..a4fdaeb5c397 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/smp.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ extern cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS];
extern cpumask_t cpu_core_map[NR_CPUS];
extern u8 phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS];
extern u8 cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS];
+extern u8 cpu_llc_id[NR_CPUS];
#define SMP_TRAMPOLINE_BASE 0x6000
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/topology.h b/include/asm-x86_64/topology.h
index c642f5d9882d..9db54e9d17bb 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/topology.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/topology.h
@@ -68,4 +68,6 @@ extern int __node_distance(int, int);
#include <asm-generic/topology.h>
+extern cpumask_t cpu_coregroup_map(int cpu);
+
#endif