On a shared LPAR, Phyp will not update the CPU associativity at boot
time. Just after the boot system does recognize itself as a shared
LPAR and trigger a request for correct CPU associativity. But by then
the scheduler would have already created/destroyed its sched domains.
This causes
- Broken load balance across Nodes causing islands of cores.
- Performance degradation esp if the system is lightly loaded
- dmesg to wrongly report all CPUs to be in Node 0.
- Messages in dmesg saying borken topology.
- With commit 051f3ca02e ("sched/topology: Introduce NUMA identity
node sched domain"), can cause rcu stalls at boot up.
The sched_domains_numa_masks table which is used to generate cpumasks
is only created at boot time just before creating sched domains and
never updated. Hence, its better to get the topology correct before
the sched domains are created.
For example on 64 core Power 8 shared LPAR, dmesg reports
Brought up 512 CPUs
Node 0 CPUs: 0-511
Node 1 CPUs:
Node 2 CPUs:
Node 3 CPUs:
Node 4 CPUs:
Node 5 CPUs:
Node 6 CPUs:
Node 7 CPUs:
Node 8 CPUs:
Node 9 CPUs:
Node 10 CPUs:
Node 11 CPUs:
...
BUG: arch topology borken
the DIE domain not a subset of the NUMA domain
BUG: arch topology borken
the DIE domain not a subset of the NUMA domain
numactl/lscpu output will still be correct with cores spreading across
all nodes:
Socket(s): 64
NUMA node(s): 12
Model: 2.0 (pvr 004d 0200)
Model name: POWER8 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor: pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 32K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7,32-39,64-71,96-103,176-183,272-279,368-375,464-471
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 8-15,40-47,72-79,104-111,184-191,280-287,376-383,472-479
NUMA node2 CPU(s): 16-23,48-55,80-87,112-119,192-199,288-295,384-391,480-487
NUMA node3 CPU(s): 24-31,56-63,88-95,120-127,200-207,296-303,392-399,488-495
NUMA node4 CPU(s): 208-215,304-311,400-407,496-503
NUMA node5 CPU(s): 168-175,264-271,360-367,456-463
NUMA node6 CPU(s): 128-135,224-231,320-327,416-423
NUMA node7 CPU(s): 136-143,232-239,328-335,424-431
NUMA node8 CPU(s): 216-223,312-319,408-415,504-511
NUMA node9 CPU(s): 144-151,240-247,336-343,432-439
NUMA node10 CPU(s): 152-159,248-255,344-351,440-447
NUMA node11 CPU(s): 160-167,256-263,352-359,448-455
Currently on this LPAR, the scheduler detects 2 levels of Numa and
created numa sched domains for all CPUs, but it finds a single DIE
domain consisting of all CPUs. Hence it deletes all numa sched
domains.
To address this, detect the shared processor and update topology soon
after CPUs are setup so that correct topology is updated just before
scheduler creates sched domain.
With the fix, dmesg reports:
numa: Node 0 CPUs: 0-7 32-39 64-71 96-103 176-183 272-279 368-375 464-471
numa: Node 1 CPUs: 8-15 40-47 72-79 104-111 184-191 280-287 376-383 472-479
numa: Node 2 CPUs: 16-23 48-55 80-87 112-119 192-199 288-295 384-391 480-487
numa: Node 3 CPUs: 24-31 56-63 88-95 120-127 200-207 296-303 392-399 488-495
numa: Node 4 CPUs: 208-215 304-311 400-407 496-503
numa: Node 5 CPUs: 168-175 264-271 360-367 456-463
numa: Node 6 CPUs: 128-135 224-231 320-327 416-423
numa: Node 7 CPUs: 136-143 232-239 328-335 424-431
numa: Node 8 CPUs: 216-223 312-319 408-415 504-511
numa: Node 9 CPUs: 144-151 240-247 336-343 432-439
numa: Node 10 CPUs: 152-159 248-255 344-351 440-447
numa: Node 11 CPUs: 160-167 256-263 352-359 448-455
and lscpu also reports:
Socket(s): 64
NUMA node(s): 12
Model: 2.0 (pvr 004d 0200)
Model name: POWER8 (architected), altivec supported
Hypervisor vendor: pHyp
Virtualization type: para
L1d cache: 64K
L1i cache: 32K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7,32-39,64-71,96-103,176-183,272-279,368-375,464-471
NUMA node1 CPU(s): 8-15,40-47,72-79,104-111,184-191,280-287,376-383,472-479
NUMA node2 CPU(s): 16-23,48-55,80-87,112-119,192-199,288-295,384-391,480-487
NUMA node3 CPU(s): 24-31,56-63,88-95,120-127,200-207,296-303,392-399,488-495
NUMA node4 CPU(s): 208-215,304-311,400-407,496-503
NUMA node5 CPU(s): 168-175,264-271,360-367,456-463
NUMA node6 CPU(s): 128-135,224-231,320-327,416-423
NUMA node7 CPU(s): 136-143,232-239,328-335,424-431
NUMA node8 CPU(s): 216-223,312-319,408-415,504-511
NUMA node9 CPU(s): 144-151,240-247,336-343,432-439
NUMA node10 CPU(s): 152-159,248-255,344-351,440-447
NUMA node11 CPU(s): 160-167,256-263,352-359,448-455
Reported-by: Manjunatha H R <manjuhr1@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Trim / format change log]
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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