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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC
On Tue, 18 Jun, at 02:33:18PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:43:19AM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > This works for me under all my tests. Thoughts?
> >
> > --->8---
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> > index 80a405c2048a..4db4e9e7654b 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> > @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> > #include <linux/sched.h>
> > #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
> > #include <linux/random.h>
> > +#include <linux/topology.h>
> > #include <asm/processor.h>
> > #include <asm/apic.h>
> > #include <asm/cacheinfo.h>
> > @@ -824,6 +825,8 @@ static void init_amd_zn(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> > {
> > set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ZEN);
> >
>
> I'm thinking this deserves a comment. Traditionally the SLIT table held
> relative memory latency. So where the identity is 10, 16 would indicate
> 1.6 times local latency and 32 would be 3.2 times local.
>
> Now, even very early on BIOS monkeys went about their business and put
> in random values in an attempt to 'tune' the system based on how
> $random-os behaved, which is all sorts of fu^Wwrong.
>
> Now, I suppose my question is; is that 32 Zen puts in an actual relative
> memory latency metric, or a random value we somehow have to deal with.
> And can we pretty please describe the whole sordid story behind this
> 'tunable' somewhere?

This is one for the AMD folks. I don't know if the memory latency
really is 3.2 times or not, only that that's the value in all the Zen
machines I have access to. Even this 2-socket one:

node distances:
node 0 1
0: 10 32
1: 32 10

Tom, Suravee?

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