Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/smp: Add support detecting thread-groups sharing L2 cache

From: Srikar Dronamraju <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:13:42 +0530

* Gautham R. Shenoy <[email-masked]> [2020-12-10 16:08:58]:

> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <[email-masked]>
> 
> On POWER systems, groups of threads within a core sharing the L2-cache
> can be indicated by the "ibm,thread-groups" property array with the
> identifier "2".
> 
> This patch adds support for detecting this, and when present, populate
> the populating the cpu_l2_cache_mask of every CPU to the core-siblings
> which share L2 with the CPU as specified in the by the
> "ibm,thread-groups" property array.
> 
> On a platform with the following "ibm,thread-group" configuration
> 		 00000001 00000002 00000004 00000000
> 		 00000002 00000004 00000006 00000001
> 		 00000003 00000005 00000007 00000002
> 		 00000002 00000004 00000000 00000002
> 		 00000004 00000006 00000001 00000003
> 		 00000005 00000007
> 

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <[email-masked]>

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Srikar Dronamraju