[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>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
index 82371d83bfa9..a6969903f2d6 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ int phys_proc_id[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
 /* Core ID of each logical CPU */
 int cpu_core_id[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
 
+/* Last level cache ID of each logical CPU */
+int cpu_llc_id[NR_CPUS] __cpuinitdata = {[0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = BAD_APICID};
+
 /* representing HT siblings of each logical CPU */
 cpumask_t cpu_sibling_map[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cpu_sibling_map);
@@ -440,6 +443,18 @@ static void __devinit smp_callin(void)
 
 static int cpucount;
 
+/* maps the cpu to the sched domain representing multi-core */
+cpumask_t cpu_coregroup_map(int cpu)
+{
+        struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = cpu_data + cpu;
+        /*
+         * For perf, we return last level cache shared map.
+         * TBD: when power saving sched policy is added, we will return
+         *      cpu_core_map when power saving policy is enabled
+         */
+        return c->llc_shared_map;
+}
+
 /* representing cpus for which sibling maps can be computed */
 static cpumask_t cpu_sibling_setup_map;
 
@@ -459,12 +474,16 @@ set_cpu_sibling_map(int cpu)
                                 cpu_set(cpu, cpu_sibling_map[i]);
                                 cpu_set(i, cpu_core_map[cpu]);
                                 cpu_set(cpu, cpu_core_map[i]);
+                                cpu_set(i, c[cpu].llc_shared_map);
+                                cpu_set(cpu, c[i].llc_shared_map);
                         }
                 }
         } else {
                 cpu_set(cpu, cpu_sibling_map[cpu]);
         }
 
+        cpu_set(cpu, c[cpu].llc_shared_map);
+
         if (current_cpu_data.x86_max_cores == 1) {
                 cpu_core_map[cpu] = cpu_sibling_map[cpu];
                 c[cpu].booted_cores = 1;
@@ -472,6 +491,11 @@ set_cpu_sibling_map(int cpu)
         }
 
         for_each_cpu_mask(i, cpu_sibling_setup_map) {
+                if (cpu_llc_id[cpu] != BAD_APICID &&
+                    cpu_llc_id[cpu] == cpu_llc_id[i]) {
+                        cpu_set(i, c[cpu].llc_shared_map);
+                        cpu_set(cpu, c[i].llc_shared_map);
+                }
                 if (phys_proc_id[cpu] == phys_proc_id[i]) {
                         cpu_set(i, cpu_core_map[cpu]);
                         cpu_set(cpu, cpu_core_map[i]);