From: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi list,
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This is the our v4 patch series, rebased on the master branch at the
commit 9ef497755afc2 ("Merge tag 'pull-vfio-20230911' of
https://github.com/legoater/qemu into staging").
Comparing with v3 [1], v4 mainly refactors the CPUID[0x1F] encoding and
exposes module level in CPUID[0x1F] with these new patches:
* [PATCH v4 08/21] i386: Split topology types of CPUID[0x1F] from the
definitions of CPUID[0xB]
* [PATCH v4 09/21] i386: Decouple CPUID[0x1F] subleaf with specific
topology level
* [PATCH v4 12/21] i386: Expose module level in CPUID[0x1F]
v4 also fixes compile warnings and fixes cache topology uninitialization
bugs for some AMD CPUs.
Welcome your comments!
# Introduction
This series add the cluster support for x86 PC machine, which allows
x86 can use smp.clusters to configure the module level CPU topology
of x86.
And since the compatibility issue (see section: ## Why not share L2
cache in cluster directly), this series also introduce a new command
to adjust the topology of the x86 L2 cache.
Welcome your comments!
# Background
The "clusters" parameter in "smp" is introduced by ARM [2], but x86
hasn't supported it.
At present, x86 defaults L2 cache is shared in one core, but this is
not enough. There're some platforms that multiple cores share the
same L2 cache, e.g., Alder Lake-P shares L2 cache for one module of
Atom cores [3], that is, every four Atom cores shares one L2 cache.
Therefore, we need the new CPU topology level (cluster/module).
Another reason is for hybrid architecture. cluster support not only
provides another level of topology definition in x86, but would also
provide required code change for future our hybrid topology support.
# Overview
## Introduction of module level for x86
"cluster" in smp is the CPU topology level which is between "core" and
die.
For x86, the "cluster" in smp is corresponding to the module level [4],
which is above the core level. So use the "module" other than "cluster"
in x86 code.
And please note that x86 already has a cpu topology level also named
"cluster" [4], this level is at the upper level of the package. Here,
the cluster in x86 cpu topology is completely different from the
"clusters" as the smp parameter. After the module level is introduced,
the cluster as the smp parameter will actually refer to the module level
of x86.
## Why not share L2 cache in cluster directly
Though "clusters" was introduced to help define L2 cache topology
[2], using cluster to define x86's L2 cache topology will cause the
compatibility problem:
Currently, x86 defaults that the L2 cache is shared in one core, which
actually implies a default setting "cores per L2 cache is 1" and
therefore implicitly defaults to having as many L2 caches as cores.
For example (i386 PC machine):
-smp 16,sockets=2,dies=2,cores=2,threads=2,maxcpus=16 (*)
Considering the topology of the L2 cache, this (*) implicitly means "1
core per L2 cache" and "2 L2 caches per die".
If we use cluster to configure L2 cache topology with the new default
setting "clusters per L2 cache is 1", the above semantics will change
to "2 cores per cluster" and "1 cluster per L2 cache", that is, "2
cores per L2 cache".
So the same command (*) will cause changes in the L2 cache topology,
further affecting the performance of the virtual machine.
Therefore, x86 should only treat cluster as a cpu topology level and
avoid using it to change L2 cache by default for compatibility.
## module level in CPUID
Linux kernel (from v6.4, with commit edc0a2b595765 ("x86/topology: Fix
erroneous smp_num_siblings on Intel Hybrid platforms") is able to
handle platforms with Module level enumerated via CPUID.1F.
Expose the module level in CPUID[0x1F] (for Intel CPUs) if the machine
has more than 1 modules since v3.
We can configure CPUID.04H.02H (L2 cache topology) with module level by
a new command:
"-cpu,x-l2-cache-topo=cluster"
More information about this command, please see the section: "## New
property: x-l2-cache-topo".
## New cache topology info in CPUCacheInfo
Currently, by default, the cache topology is encoded as:
1. i/d cache is shared in one core.
2. L2 cache is shared in one core.
3. L3 cache is shared in one die.
This default general setting has caused a misunderstanding, that is, the
cache topology is completely equated with a specific cpu topology, such
as the connection between L2 cache and core level, and the connection
between L3 cache and die level.
In fact, the settings of these topologies depend on the specific
platform and are not static. For example, on Alder Lake-P, every
four Atom cores share the same L2 cache [2].
Thus, in this patch set, we explicitly define the corresponding cache
topology for different cpu models and this has two benefits:
1. Easy to expand to new CPU models in the future, which has different
cache topology.
2. It can easily support custom cache topology by some command (e.g.,
x-l2-cache-topo).
## New property: x-l2-cache-topo
The property x-l2-cache-topo will be used to change the L2 cache
topology in CPUID.04H.
Now it allows user to set the L2 cache is shared in core level or
cluster level.
If user passes "-cpu x-l2-cache-topo=[core|cluster]" then older L2 cache
topology will be overrode by the new topology setting.
Since CPUID.04H is used by Intel CPUs, this property is available on
Intel CPUs as for now.
When necessary, it can be extended to CPUID[0x8000001D] for AMD CPUs.
# Patch description
patch 1-2 Cleanups about coding style and test name.
patch 3-5 Fixes about x86 topology and Intel l1 cache topology.
patch 6-7 Cleanups about topology related CPUID encoding and QEMU
topology variables.
patch 8-9 Refactor CPUID[0x1F] encoding to prepare to introduce module
level.
patch 10-16 Add the module as the new CPU topology level in x86, and it
is corresponding to the cluster level in generic code.
patch 17,18,20 Add cache topology information in cache models.
patch 19 Update AMD CPUs' cache topology encoding.
patch 21 Introduce a new command to configure L2 cache topology.
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-08/msg00022.html
[2]: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20211228092221.21068-1-wangyanan55@xxxxxxxxxx/
[3]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/platforms/details/alder-lake-p.html
[4]: SDM, vol.3, ch.9, 9.9.1 Hierarchical Mapping of Shared Resources.
Best Regards,
Zhao
---
Changelog:
Changes since v3 (main changes):
* Expose module level in CPUID[0x1F].
* Fix compile warnings. (Babu)
* Fixes cache topology uninitialization bugs for some AMD CPUs. (Babu)
Changes since v2:
* Add "Tested-by", "Reviewed-by" and "ACKed-by" tags.
* Use newly added wrapped helper to get cores per socket in
qemu_init_vcpu().
Changes since v1:
* Reordered patches. (Yanan)
* Deprecated the patch to fix comment of machine_parse_smp_config().
(Yanan)
* Rename test-x86-cpuid.c to test-x86-topo.c. (Yanan)
* Split the intel's l1 cache topology fix into a new separate patch.
(Yanan)
* Combined module_id and APIC ID for module level support into one
patch. (Yanan)
* Make cache_into_passthrough case of cpuid 0x04 leaf in
* cpu_x86_cpuid() use max_processor_ids_for_cache() and
max_core_ids_in_package() to encode CPUID[4]. (Yanan)
* Add the prefix "CPU_TOPO_LEVEL_*" for CPU topology level names.
(Yanan)
---
Zhao Liu (14):
i386: Fix comment style in topology.h
tests: Rename test-x86-cpuid.c to test-x86-topo.c
hw/cpu: Update the comments of nr_cores and nr_dies
i386/cpu: Fix i/d-cache topology to core level for Intel CPU
i386/cpu: Use APIC ID offset to encode cache topo in CPUID[4]
i386/cpu: Consolidate the use of topo_info in cpu_x86_cpuid()
i386: Split topology types of CPUID[0x1F] from the definitions of
CPUID[0xB]
i386: Decouple CPUID[0x1F] subleaf with specific topology level
i386: Expose module level in CPUID[0x1F]
i386: Add cache topology info in CPUCacheInfo
i386: Use CPUCacheInfo.share_level to encode CPUID[4]
i386: Use offsets get NumSharingCache for CPUID[0x8000001D].EAX[bits
25:14]
i386: Use CPUCacheInfo.share_level to encode
CPUID[0x8000001D].EAX[bits 25:14]
i386: Add new property to control L2 cache topo in CPUID.04H
Zhuocheng Ding (7):
softmmu: Fix CPUSTATE.nr_cores' calculation
i386: Introduce module-level cpu topology to CPUX86State
i386: Support modules_per_die in X86CPUTopoInfo
i386: Support module_id in X86CPUTopoIDs
i386/cpu: Introduce cluster-id to X86CPU
tests: Add test case of APIC ID for module level parsing
hw/i386/pc: Support smp.clusters for x86 PC machine
MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
hw/i386/pc.c | 1 +
hw/i386/x86.c | 49 ++-
include/hw/core/cpu.h | 2 +-
include/hw/i386/topology.h | 68 ++--
qemu-options.hx | 10 +-
softmmu/cpus.c | 2 +-
target/i386/cpu.c | 322 ++++++++++++++----
target/i386/cpu.h | 46 ++-
target/i386/kvm/kvm.c | 2 +-
tests/unit/meson.build | 4 +-
.../{test-x86-cpuid.c => test-x86-topo.c} | 58 ++--
12 files changed, 437 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
rename tests/unit/{test-x86-cpuid.c => test-x86-topo.c} (73%)
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