History log of /linux-master/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# aa483f3c 06-Dec-2021 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

topology/sysfs: get rid of htmldoc warning

Stephen Rothwell reported the following warning caused by commit
f1045056c726 ("topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology
ifdefery"):

Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst:49: WARNING: Block quote
ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

To fix this remove the extra indentation again.

Fixes: f1045056c726 ("topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology ifdefery")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ya4Ht2K9x2+lUtuR@osiris
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# f1045056 29-Nov-2021 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology ifdefery

Provide default defines for the topology_book_[id|cpumask] and
topology_drawer_[id|cpumask] macros just like for each other topology
level.
This way all topology levels are handled in a similar way. Still the
the book and drawer levels are only used on s390, and also the sysfs
attributes are only created on s390. However other architectures may
opt in if wanted.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-4-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# e7957077 29-Nov-2021 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

topology/sysfs: export cluster attributes only if an architectures has support

The cluster_id and cluster_cpus topology sysfs attributes have been
added with commit c5e22feffdd7 ("topology: Represent clusters of CPUs
within a die").

They are currently only used for x86, arm64, and riscv (via generic
arch topology), however they are still present with bogus default
values for all other architectures. Instead of enforcing such new
sysfs attributes to all architectures, make them only optional visible
if an architecture opts in by defining both the topology_cluster_id
and topology_cluster_cpumask attributes.

This is similar to what was done when the book and drawer topology
levels were introduced: avoid useless and therefore confusing sysfs
attributes for architectures which cannot make use of them.

This should not break any existing applications, since this is a
new interface introduced with the v5.16 merge window.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-3-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 2c4dcd7f 29-Nov-2021 Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>

topology/sysfs: export die attributes only if an architectures has support

The die_id and die_cpus topology sysfs attributes have been added with
commit 0e344d8c709f ("cpu/topology: Export die_id") and commit
2e4c54dac7b3 ("topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes").

While they are currently only used and useful for x86 they are still
present with bogus default values for all architectures. Instead of
enforcing such new sysfs attributes to all architectures, make them
only optional visible if an architecture opts in by defining both the
topology_die_id and topology_die_cpumask attributes.

This is similar to what was done when the book and drawer topology
levels were introduced: avoid useless and therefore confusing sysfs
attributes for architectures which cannot make use of them.

This should not break any existing applications, since this is a
rather new interface and applications should be able to handle also
older kernel versions without such attributes - besides that they
contain only useful information for x86.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-2-hca@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# c5e22fef 24-Sep-2021 Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die

Both ACPI and DT provide the ability to describe additional layers of
topology between that of individual cores and higher level constructs
such as the level at which the last level cache is shared.
In ACPI this can be represented in PPTT as a Processor Hierarchy
Node Structure [1] that is the parent of the CPU cores and in turn
has a parent Processor Hierarchy Nodes Structure representing
a higher level of topology.

For example Kunpeng 920 has 6 or 8 clusters in each NUMA node, and each
cluster has 4 cpus. All clusters share L3 cache data, but each cluster
has local L3 tag. On the other hand, each clusters will share some
internal system bus.

+-----------------------------------+ +---------+
| +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
| | CPU0 | | cpu1 | | +-----------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ | | | | |
| +----+ L3 | | |
| +------+ +------+ cluster | | tag | | |
| | CPU2 | | CPU3 | | | | | |
| +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
| | | |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
| | | | | | +-----------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ | | | | |
| | | L3 | | |
| +------+ +------+ +----+ tag | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
| | | |
+-----------------------------------+ | L3 |
| data |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +------+ +------+ +----+ L3 | | |
| | | tag | | |
| +------+ +------+ | | | | |
| | | | | | +-----------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
+-----------------------------------| | |
+-----------------------------------| | |
| +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
| | | | | | +-----------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ | | | | |
| +----+ L3 | | |
| +------+ +------+ | | tag | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
| | | |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
| | | | | | +-----------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ | | | | |
| | | L3 | | |
| +------+ +------+ +---+ tag | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
| | | |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
+-----------------------------------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ |
| | | | | | +-----------+ | |
| +------+ +------+ | | | | |
| | | L3 | | |
| +------+ +------+ +--+ tag | | |
| | | | | | | | | |
| +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | |
| | +---------+
+-----------------------------------+

That means spreading tasks among clusters will bring more bandwidth
while packing tasks within one cluster will lead to smaller cache
synchronization latency. So both kernel and userspace will have
a chance to leverage this topology to deploy tasks accordingly to
achieve either smaller cache latency within one cluster or an even
distribution of load among clusters for higher throughput.

This patch exposes cluster topology to both kernel and userspace.
Libraried like hwloc will know cluster by cluster_cpus and related
sysfs attributes. PoC of HWLOC support at [2].

Note this patch only handle the ACPI case.

Special consideration is needed for SMT processors, where it is
necessary to move 2 levels up the hierarchy from the leaf nodes
(thus skipping the processor core level).

Note that arm64 / ACPI does not provide any means of identifying
a die level in the topology but that may be unrelate to the cluster
level.

[1] ACPI Specification 6.3 - section 5.2.29.1 processor hierarchy node
structure (Type 0)
[2] https://github.com/hisilicon/hwloc/tree/linux-cluster

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210924085104.44806-2-21cnbao@gmail.com


# d5caec39 22-Jun-2021 Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>

admin-guide/cputopology.rst: Remove non-existed cpu-hotplug.txt

Since kernel commit ff58fa7f556c ("Documentation: Update CPU hotplug and move it to core-api"),
cpu_hotplug.txt has been removed. We should update it in here.

Signed-off-by: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1624412269-13155-1-git-send-email-xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 05a463ec 10-Jun-2021 Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>

docs: cputopology: move the sysfs ABI description to right place

Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst is the wrong place to describe
sysfs ABI. So move the cputopology ABI things to
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu and add a reference to
ABI doc in Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319041618.14316-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611052249.25776-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>


# 4f4cfa6c 27-Jun-2019 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents

There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).

Move them to the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>