Currently CACHE domain is not enabled on shared processor mode PowerVM
LPARS. On PowerVM systems, 'ibm,thread-group' device-tree property 2
under cpu-device-node indicates which all CPUs share L2-cache. However
'ibm,thread-group' device-tree property 2 is a relatively new property.
In absence of 'ibm,thread-group' property 2, 'l2-cache' device property
under cpu-device-node could help system to identify CPUs sharing L2-cache.
However this property is not exposed by PhyP in shared processor mode
configurations.
In absence of properties that inform OS about which CPUs share L2-cache,
fallback on core boundary.
Here are some stats from Power9 shared LPAR with the changes.
$ lscpu
Architecture: ppc64le
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 32
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-31
Thread(s) per core: 8
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 3
NUMA node(s): 2
Model: 2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
Model name: POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor: pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 16-23
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 0-15,24-31
Physical sockets: 2
Physical chips: 1
Physical cores/chip: 10
Before patch
$ grep -r . /sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain*/name
Before
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain0/name:SMT
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain1/name:DIE
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain2/name:NUMA
After
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain0/name:SMT
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain1/name:CACHE
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain2/name:DIE
/sys/kernel/debug/sched/domains/cpu0/domain3/name:NUMA
$ awk '/domain/{print $1, $2}' /proc/schedstat | sort -u | sed -e 's/
00000000,//g'
Before
domain0
00000055
domain0
000000aa
domain0
00005500
domain0
0000aa00
domain0
00550000
domain0
00aa0000
domain0
55000000
domain0
aa000000
domain1
00ff0000
domain1
ff00ffff
domain2
ffffffff
After
domain0
00000055
domain0
000000aa
domain0
00005500
domain0
0000aa00
domain0
00550000
domain0
00aa0000
domain0
55000000
domain0
aa000000
domain1
000000ff
domain1
0000ff00
domain1
00ff0000
domain1
ff000000
domain2
ff00ffff
domain2
ffffffff
domain3
ffffffff
(Lower is better)
perf stat -a -r 5 -n perf bench sched pipe | tail -n 2
Before
153.798 +- 0.142 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.09% )
After
111.545 +- 0.652 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.58% )
which is an improvement of 27.47%
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210826100401.412519-4-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com