On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 06:57:08 +0000 "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 7:35 PM > > To: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx; will@xxxxxxxxxx; > > rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vincent.guittot@xxxxxxxxxx; bp@xxxxxxxxx; > > tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; mingo@xxxxxxxxxx; lenb@xxxxxxxxxx; peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx; rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx; bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx; > > mgorman@xxxxxxx; msys.mizuma@xxxxxxxxx; valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx; Jonathan > > Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>; juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx; > > mark.rutland@xxxxxxx; sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx; aubrey.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; x86@xxxxxxxxxx; xuwei (O) <xuwei5@xxxxxxxxxx>; > > Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; guodong.xu@xxxxxxxxxx; yangyicong > > <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxx>; Liguozhu (Kenneth) <liguozhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; > > linuxarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; hpa@xxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/4] topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within > > a die > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 05:16:15PM +1300, Barry Song wrote: > > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > b/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > index b90dafc..f9d3745 100644 > > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ core_id: > > > identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is > > > architecture and platform dependent. > > > > > > +cluster_id: > > > + > > > + the Cluster ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's > > > + identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is > > > + architecture and platform dependent. > > > + > > > book_id: > > > > > > the book ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's > > > @@ -56,6 +62,14 @@ package_cpus_list: > > > human-readable list of CPUs sharing the same physical_package_id. > > > (deprecated name: "core_siblings_list") > > > > > > +cluster_cpus: > > > + > > > + internal kernel map of CPUs within the same cluster. > > > + > > > +cluster_cpus_list: > > > + > > > + human-readable list of CPUs within the same cluster. > > > + > > > die_cpus: > > > > > > internal kernel map of CPUs within the same die. > > > > Why are these sysfs files in this file, and not in a Documentation/ABI/ > > file which can be correctly parsed and shown to userspace? > > Well. Those ABIs have been there for much a long time. It is like: > > [root@ceph1 topology]# ls > core_id core_siblings core_siblings_list physical_package_id thread_siblings thread_siblings_list > [root@ceph1 topology]# pwd > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu100/topology > [root@ceph1 topology]# cat core_siblings_list > 64-127 > [root@ceph1 topology]# > > > > > Any chance you can fix that up here as well? > > Yes. we will send a separate patch to address this, which won't > be in this patchset. This patchset will base on that one. > > > > > Also note that "list" is not something that goes in sysfs, sysfs is "one > > value per file", and a list is not "one value". How do you prevent > > overflowing the buffer of the sysfs file if you have a "list"? > > > > At a glance, the list is using "-" rather than a real list > [root@ceph1 topology]# cat core_siblings_list > 64-127 > > Anyway, I will take a look if it has any chance to overflow. It could in theory be alternate CPUs as comma separated list. So it's would get interesting around 500-1000 cpus (guessing). Hopefully no one has that crazy a cpu numbering scheme but it's possible (note that cluster is fine for this, but I guess it might eventually happen for core-siblings list (cpus within a package). Shouldn't crash or anything like that but might terminate early. On sysfs file conversion, that got mentioned earlier but I forgot to remind Barry about it when he took this patch into his series. Sorry about that! Jonathan > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > Thanks > Barry >
