x86,sched: Allow topologies where NUMA nodes share an LLC
Intel's Skylake Server CPUs have a different LLC topology than previous generations. When in Sub-NUMA-Clustering (SNC) mode, the package is divided into two "slices", each containing half the cores, half the LLC, and one memory controller and each slice is enumerated to Linux as a NUMA node. This is similar to how the cores and LLC were arranged for the Cluster-On-Die (CoD) feature. CoD allowed the same cache line to be present in each half of the LLC. But, with SNC, each line is only ever present in *one* slice. This means that the portion of the LLC *available* to a CPU depends on the data being accessed: Remote socket: entire package LLC is shared Local socket->local slice: data goes into local slice LLC Local socket->remote slice: data goes into remote-slice LLC. Slightly higher latency than local slice LLC. The biggest implication from this is that a process accessing all NUMA-local memory only sees half the LLC capacity. The CPU describes its cache hierarchy with the CPUID instruction. One of the CPUID leaves enumerates the "logical processors sharing this cache". This information is used for scheduling decisions so that tasks move more freely between CPUs sharing the cache. But, the CPUID for the SNC configuration discussed above enumerates the LLC as being shared by the entire package. This is not 100% precise because the entire cache is not usable by all accesses. But, it *is* the way the hardware enumerates itself, and this is not likely to change. The userspace visible impact of all the above is that the sysfs info reports the entire LLC as being available to the entire package. As noted above, this is not true for local socket accesses. This patch does not correct the sysfs info. It is the same, pre and post patch. The current code emits the following warning: sched: CPU #3's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency. The warning is coming from the topology_sane() check in smpboot.c because the topology is not matching the expectations of the model for obvious reasons. To fix this, add a vendor and model specific check to never call topology_sane() for these systems. Also, just like "Cluster-on-Die" disable the "coregroup" sched_domain_topology_level and use NUMA information from the SRAT alone. This is OK at least on the hardware we are immediately concerned about because the LLC sharing happens at both the slice and at the package level, which are also NUMA boundaries. Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: brice.goglin@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180407002130.GA18984@alison-desk.jf.intel.com
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