Re: [PATCH] arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER

[Jeremy Linton]

On 8/12/25 11:33 AM, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2025, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>
> >  From what I've seen, SCHED_CLUSTER seems to be a bit of give and take
> > depending on benchmark and machine. I'm not sure if it should be default
> > enabled or not, but it would really be nice to have at least a larger sweep of
> > benchmarks/machines in order to be sure of the decision.
>
> If the hardware provides a clusterid then I think this clusterid should be
> used for the sched domains. CONFIG_SCHED_CLUSTER does that. So it should
> be the default.

Hi,

The problem is that this information is being sourced from the ACPI 
PPTT. The ACPI specification (AFAIK) doesn't define a cluster, so the 
linux cluster information is being 'invented' based on however the 
firmware vendor choose to group CPU nodes in the PPTT. Which means its 
possible for them to unknowingly create clusters, or also fail to create 
them when they make sense.

> If there is no cluster information then these domains should not be
> created. I think that is already the case?