On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 15:28:17 -0800, Atish Patra wrote: > From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> > > The current ARM DT topology description provides the operating system > with a topological view of the system that is based on leaf nodes > representing either cores or threads (in an SMT system) and a > hierarchical set of cluster nodes that creates a hierarchical topology > view of how those cores and threads are grouped. > > However this hierarchical representation of clusters does not allow to > describe what topology level actually represents the physical package or > the socket boundary, which is a key piece of information to be used by > an operating system to optimize resource allocation and scheduling. > > Lets add a new "socket" node type in the cpu-map node to describe the > same. > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt | 52 ++++++++++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
