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On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. CC Nico on mcpm patches please. I'm happy to be CC'd as well. > > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> > --- > arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > * to consider dynamic allocation. > */ > #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial amount of memory. Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters. If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory. I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now. Ideally, we would have a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation. Cheers ---Dave
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Dave Martin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, > > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. > > CC Nico on mcpm patches please. I'm happy to be CC'd as well. Indeed. > > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> > > --- > > arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 > > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > > * to consider dynamic allocation. > > */ > > #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 > > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 > > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 > > Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the > system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial > amount of memory. > > Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define > every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters. > If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory. > > I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define > to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now. Ideally, we would have > a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built > into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation. I think we should go with the ability to select a maximum based on the configured platforms. That could be as simple as having a CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol to be selected by those platforms that need it. The memory usage is still relatively low: 4 clusters containing 6 independent cache lines each, so for a 64-byte cache line this means 1536 bytes. That is rather insignificant compared to the amount of memory fitted to typical multi-cluster systems, especially quad cluster systems. Unless there is yet more expansion of clusters and/or CPUs per cluster to come amongst MCPM users, I don't think we've yet reached the tipping point where the complexity of dynamic memory allocation for this is worth it. However, changing MAX_NR_CLUSTERS cannot be done without also modifying the code in bL_switcher_init() or the b.L switcher won't work anymore on dual cluster systems as soon as a quad cluster system is configured in. Simply removing the test against MAX_NR_CLUSTERS should be sufficient as there is already a runtime validation test in bL_switcher_halve_cpus(). Nicolas
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:39:04PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Dave Martin wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > > > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, > > > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. > > > > CC Nico on mcpm patches please. I'm happy to be CC'd as well. > > Indeed. > > > > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> > > > --- > > > arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > > > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 > > > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > > > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > > > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > > > * to consider dynamic allocation. > > > */ > > > #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 > > > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 > > > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 > > > > Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the > > system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial > > amount of memory. > > > > Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define > > every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters. > > If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory. > > > > I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define > > to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now. Ideally, we would have > > a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built > > into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation. > > I think we should go with the ability to select a maximum based on the > configured platforms. That could be as simple as having a > CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol to be selected by those platforms that > need it. Yes, that could work. We could use a similar approach for __CACHE_WRITEBACK_ORDER, but at the moment we are not aware of a platform that contains caches with lines larger than 64 bytes. We shouldn't address that until/unless it's needed. > The memory usage is still relatively low: 4 clusters containing 6 > independent cache lines each, so for a 64-byte cache line this means > 1536 bytes. That is rather insignificant compared to the amount of > memory fitted to typical multi-cluster systems, especially quad cluster > systems. Unless there is yet more expansion of clusters and/or CPUs per > cluster to come amongst MCPM users, I don't think we've yet reached the > tipping point where the complexity of dynamic memory allocation for this > is worth it. I agree with this. If we se 16 clusters somewhere, it might be time to rethink, but dynamic allocation seems like overkill for 4. > However, changing MAX_NR_CLUSTERS cannot be done without also modifying > the code in bL_switcher_init() or the b.L switcher won't work anymore on > dual cluster systems as soon as a quad cluster system is configured in. > Simply removing the test against MAX_NR_CLUSTERS should be sufficient as > there is already a runtime validation test in bL_switcher_halve_cpus(). Agreed, that will need some attention, but it doesn't sound too painful. Cheers ---Dave
On 11 April 2014 10:39, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Dave Martin wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: >> > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, >> > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. >> >> CC Nico on mcpm patches please. I'm happy to be CC'd as well. > > Indeed. > >> > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> >> > --- >> > arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h >> > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 >> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h >> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h >> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ >> > * to consider dynamic allocation. >> > */ >> > #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 >> > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 >> > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 >> >> Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the >> system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial >> amount of memory. >> >> Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define >> every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters. >> If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory. >> >> I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define >> to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now. Ideally, we would have >> a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built >> into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation. > > I think we should go with the ability to select a maximum based on the > configured platforms. That could be as simple as having a > CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol to be selected by those platforms that > need it. > I'll set MAX_NR_CLUSTERS from Kconfig. If BIG_LITTLE isn't enabled & HIP04 is enabled, MAX_NR_CLUSTERS could be set to 4. Otherwise, it's always 2. Since there're only 16 A15 cores in HiP04. Regards Haojian
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:45:05PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > On 11 April 2014 10:39, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Dave Martin wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > >> > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, > >> > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. > >> > >> CC Nico on mcpm patches please. I'm happy to be CC'd as well. > > > > Indeed. > > > >> > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> > >> > --- > >> > arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- > >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >> > > >> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > >> > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 > >> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > >> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > >> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > >> > * to consider dynamic allocation. > >> > */ > >> > #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 > >> > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 > >> > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 > >> > >> Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the > >> system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial > >> amount of memory. > >> > >> Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define > >> every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters. > >> If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory. > >> > >> I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define > >> to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now. Ideally, we would have > >> a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built > >> into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation. > > > > I think we should go with the ability to select a maximum based on the > > configured platforms. That could be as simple as having a > > CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol to be selected by those platforms that > > need it. > > > > I'll set MAX_NR_CLUSTERS from Kconfig. > > If BIG_LITTLE isn't enabled & HIP04 is enabled, MAX_NR_CLUSTERS could > be set to 4. Perhaps the bL switcher should simply refuse to enable itself if there are more than 2 clusters, or 2 clusters that are identical. There's no reason why HIP04 and b.L switcher support shouldn't be built into the same kernel image, since the decision about whether to enable the switcher is made at runtime. Cheers ---Dave
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > On 11 April 2014 10:39, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Dave Martin wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:00:46PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote: > >> > In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, > >> > enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. > >> > >> CC Nico on mcpm patches please. I'm happy to be CC'd as well. > > > > Indeed. > > > >> > Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> > >> > --- > >> > arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- > >> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >> > > >> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > >> > index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 > >> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > >> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h > >> > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > >> > * to consider dynamic allocation. > >> > */ > >> > #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 > >> > -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 > >> > +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 > >> > >> Because of the need for alignment to the biggest cacheline size in the > >> system, the MCPM low-level locking structures consume a non-trivial > >> amount of memory. > >> > >> Therefore, I'm not keen on the idea of simply increasing this #define > >> every time a platform appears with a larger number of clusters. > >> If hip04 is not built into the kernel, this just wastes memory. > >> > >> I'll leave it to Nico to decide whether we can increase the #define > >> to 4 or whether this needs a proper fix now. Ideally, we would have > >> a way of choosing the maximum value required by the set of boards built > >> into the kernel, or switch to dynamic allocation. > > > > I think we should go with the ability to select a maximum based on the > > configured platforms. That could be as simple as having a > > CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol to be selected by those platforms that > > need it. > > > > I'll set MAX_NR_CLUSTERS from Kconfig. > > If BIG_LITTLE isn't enabled & HIP04 is enabled, MAX_NR_CLUSTERS could > be set to 4. > Otherwise, it's always 2. Since there're only 16 A15 cores in HiP04. No. Please let's avoid cross dependencies for things that are conceptually unrelated. Like I suggested, just create a CONFIG_MCPM_QUAD_CLUSTER symbol and select it from the HIP04 config. For multi-platform kernels we must be able to support both BIG_LITTLE and HIP04 in the same config. Whether or not the big.LITTLE code is activated can be decided at run time. Nicolas
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h index 608516e..68f82cf 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ * to consider dynamic allocation. */ #define MAX_CPUS_PER_CLUSTER 4 -#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 2 +#define MAX_NR_CLUSTERS 4 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
In order to support 4 clusters with 4 Cortex A15 Cores in each cluster, enlarge maximum clusters from 2 to 4 in MCPM. Signed-off-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@linaro.org> --- arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)