Re: [rfc][patch] select_idle_sibling() inducing bouncing on westmere

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat May 26 2012 - 03:29:55 EST


On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 08:37 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> Ew. 3.4 went broke for Q6600, and performance went... far far away.
>
> [ 0.200057] CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
> [ 0.204016] domain 0: span 0-3 level MC
> [ 0.208015] groups: 0 1 2 3
> [ 0.210970] CPU1 attaching sched-domain:
> [ 0.212014] domain 0: span 0-3 level MC
> [ 0.216016] groups: 1 2 3 0
> [ 0.220016] CPU2 attaching sched-domain:
> [ 0.224015] domain 0: span 0-3 level MC
> [ 0.228016] groups: 2 3 0 1
> [ 0.232015] CPU3 attaching sched-domain:
> [ 0.236016] domain 0: span 0-3 level MC
> [ 0.240017] groups: 3 0 1 2


Oh yikes, I guess I wrecked
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:cpu_coregroup_mask() in
8e7fbcbc22c12414bcc9dfdd683637f58fb32759.

That should very much always return llc mask, I just got that AMD case
confused. It looks like it should look like:


const struct cpumask *cpu_coregroup_mask(int cpu)
{
return cpu_llc_mask(cpu);
}

And the AMD_DCM check was just to undo powersavings damage on
Magny-Cours or somesuch.

Andreas?
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