From 1e9f28fa1eb9773bf65bae08288c6a0a38eef4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Siddha, Suresh B" Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:15:22 -0800 Subject: [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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-x86_64/processor.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/asm-x86_64/processor.h') diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h index 8c8d88c036e..1aa2cee4334 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/processor.h @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #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; -- cgit v1.2.3