Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] Represent cluster topology and enable load balance between clusters

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On Fri, 2021-10-01 at 16:57 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:39:56PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> > Hi Barry,
> > 
> > On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 12:32, Barry Song <21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Vincent, Dietmar, Peter, Ingo,
> > > Do you have any comment on this first series which exposes
> > > cluster topology
> > > of ARM64 kunpeng 920 & x86 Jacobsville and supports load balance
> > > only for
> > > the 1st stage?
> > > I will be very grateful for your comments so that things can move
> > > forward in the
> > > right direction. I think Tim also looks forward to bringing up
> > > cluster
> > > support in
> > > Jacobsville.
> > 
> > This patchset makes sense to me and the addition of a new
> > scheduling
> > level to better reflect the HW topology goes in the right
> > direction.
> 
> So I had a look, dreading the selecti-idle-sibling changes, and was
> pleasantly surprised they're gone :-)
> 
> As is, this does indeed look like something mergable without too much
> hassle.
> 
> The one questino I have is, do we want default y?

I also agree that default y is preferable.

> 
> The one nit I have is the Kconfig text, I'm not really sure that's
> clarifying what a cluster is.

Do you have a preference of a different name other than cluster?
Or simply better documentation on what a cluster is for ARM64
and x86 in Kconfig?

Thanks.

Tim




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