On 9/12/22 15:41, Janis Schoetterl-Glausch wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 09:55 +0200, Pierre Morel wrote:
Add some basic examples for the definition of cpu topology
in s390x.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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+CPU Topology on s390x
+=====================
+
+CPU Topology on S390x provides up to 4 levels of topology containers:
+drawers, books, sockets and CPUs.
+While the three higher level containers, Containers Topology List Entries,
+(Containers TLE) define a tree hierarchy, the lowest level of topology
+definition, the CPU Topology List Entry (CPU TLE), provides the placement
+of the CPUs inside the last container.
inside the parent container
OK
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+To use CPU Topology a Linux QEMU/KVM machine providing the CPU Topology facility
+(STFLE bit 11) is required.
+
+However, since this facility has been enabled by default in an early version,
+the capability ``KVM_CAP_S390_CPU_TOPOLOGY`` is needed to indicate to KVM
+that QEMU support CPU Topology.
I don't understand this paragraph. Early version of what?
of QEMU, I add this
+
+Indicating the CPU topology to the Virtual Machine
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+The CPU Topology, number of drawers, number of books per drawers, number of
+sockets per book and number of cores per sockets is specified with the
+``-smp`` qemu command arguments.
+
+Like in :
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+ -smp cpus=1,drawers=3,books=4,sockets=2,cores=8,maxcpus=192
+
+If drawers or books are not specified, their default to 1.
+
+New CPUs can be plugged using the device_add hmp command like in:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+ (qemu) device_add host-s390x-cpu,core-id=9
+
+The core-id defines the placement of the core in the topology by
+starting with core 0 in socket 0, book 0 and drawer 0 up to the maximum
+core number of the last socket of the last book in the last drawer.
+
+In the example above:
+
+* the core with ID 9 will be placed in container (0,0,1), as core 9
+ of CPU TLE 0 of socket 1 in book 0 from drawer 0.
+* the core ID 0 is defined by the -smp cpus=1 command and will be
+ placed as core 0 in CPU TLE 0 of container (0,0,0)
+
+Note that the core ID is machine wide and the CPU TLE masks provided
+by the STSI instruction will be:
+
+* in socket 0: 0x80000000 (core id 0)
+* in socket 1: 0x00400000 (core id 9)
+
+Indicating the CPU topology to the Guest
+----------------------------------------
+
+The guest can query for topology changes using the PTF instruction.
+In case of a topology change it can request the new topology by issuing
+STSI instructions specifying the level of detail required, drawer with
+STSI(15.1.4) or books STSI(15.1.3).
+
+The virtual machine will fill the provided buffer with the count of
+drawers (MAG4), books per drawer (MAG3), sockets per book (MAG2) and
+cores per socket (MAG1).
+
+Note that the STSI(15.1.2) is special in two ways:
+
+* When the firmware detect a change in the values calculated for STSI(15.1.2)
+ it will trigger the report of the topology change for the PTF instruction.
I don't know if we need this section, after all documenting this is the
job of the principles of operation. You could just refer to the
relevant sections.
OK, I will make it shorter
Thanks,
Pierre
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Pierre Morel
IBM Lab Boeblingen
