Subject: [PATCHv4 2/2] powerpc: implement arch_scale_smt_power for Power7

From: Joel Schopp <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:57:58 -0600

On Power7 processors running in SMT4 mode with 2, 3, or 4 idle threads 
there is performance benefit to idling the higher numbered threads in
the core.  

This patch implements arch_scale_smt_power to dynamically update smt
thread power in these idle cases in order to prefer threads 0,1 over
threads 2,3 within a core.

Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <[email-masked]>
---
Version 3 adds the #ifdef to avoid compiling on kernels that don't need it
Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -620,3 +620,61 @@ void __cpu_die(unsigned int cpu)
 		smp_ops->cpu_die(cpu);
 }
 #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
+unsigned long arch_scale_smt_power(struct sched_domain *sd, int cpu)
+{
+	int sibling;
+	int idle_count = 0;
+	int thread;
+
+	/* Setup the default weight and smt_gain used by most cpus for SMT
+	 * Power.  Doing this right away covers the default case and can be
+	 * used by cpus that modify it dynamically.
+	 */
+	struct cpumask *sibling_map = sched_domain_span(sd);
+	unsigned long weight = cpumask_weight(sibling_map);
+	unsigned long smt_gain = sd->smt_gain;
+
+
+	if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_ASYNC_SMT4) && weight == 4) {
+		for_each_cpu(sibling, sibling_map) {
+			if (idle_cpu(sibling))
+				idle_count++;
+		}
+
+		/* the following section attempts to tweak cpu power based
+		 * on current idleness of the threads dynamically at runtime
+		 */
+		if (idle_count > 1) {
+			thread = cpu_thread_in_core(cpu);
+			if (thread < 2) {
+				/* add 75 % to thread power */
+				smt_gain += (smt_gain >> 1) + (smt_gain >> 2);
+			} else {
+				 /* subtract 75 % to thread power */
+				smt_gain = smt_gain >> 2;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* default smt gain is 1178, weight is # of SMT threads */
+	switch (weight) {
+	case 1:
+		/*divide by 1, do nothing*/
+		break;
+	case 2:
+		smt_gain = smt_gain >> 1;
+		break;
+	case 4:
+		smt_gain = smt_gain >> 2;
+		break;
+	default:
+		smt_gain /= weight;
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return smt_gain;
+
+}
+#endif
Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ extern const char *powerpc_base_platform
 #define CPU_FTR_SAO			LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0020000000000000)
 #define CPU_FTR_CP_USE_DCBTZ		LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0040000000000000)
 #define CPU_FTR_UNALIGNED_LD_STD	LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0080000000000000)
+#define CPU_FTR_ASYNC_SMT4		LONG_ASM_CONST(0x0100000000000000)
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
@@ -409,7 +410,7 @@ extern const char *powerpc_base_platform
 	    CPU_FTR_MMCRA | CPU_FTR_SMT | \
 	    CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE | CPU_FTR_LOCKLESS_TLBIE | \
 	    CPU_FTR_PURR | CPU_FTR_SPURR | CPU_FTR_REAL_LE | \
-	    CPU_FTR_DSCR | CPU_FTR_SAO)
+	    CPU_FTR_DSCR | CPU_FTR_SAO | CPU_FTR_ASYNC_SMT4)
 #define CPU_FTRS_CELL	(CPU_FTR_USE_TB | CPU_FTR_LWSYNC | \
 	    CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 | CPU_FTR_CTRL | \
 	    CPU_FTR_ALTIVEC_COMP | CPU_FTR_MMCRA | CPU_FTR_SMT | \