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authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>2020-11-10 18:43:00 +0000
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2020-11-19 11:25:46 +0100
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sched/topology: Warn when NUMA diameter > 2
NUMA topologies where the shortest path between some two nodes requires three or more hops (i.e. diameter > 2) end up being misrepresented in the scheduler topology structures. This is currently detected when booting a kernel with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y + sched_debug on the cmdline, although this will only yield a warning about sched_group spans not matching sched_domain spans: ERROR: groups don't span domain->span Add an explicit warning for that case, triggered regardless of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, and decorate it with an appropriate comment. The topology described in the comment can be booted up on QEMU by appending the following to your usual QEMU incantation: -smp cores=4 \ -numa node,cpus=0,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=1,nodeid=1, \ -numa node,cpus=2,nodeid=2, -numa node,cpus=3,nodeid=3, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=20, -numa dist,src=0,dst=2,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=3,val=40, -numa dist,src=1,dst=2,val=20, \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=3,val=30, -numa dist,src=2,dst=3,val=20 A somewhat more realistic topology (6-node mesh) with the same affliction can be conjured with: -smp cores=6 \ -numa node,cpus=0,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=1,nodeid=1, \ -numa node,cpus=2,nodeid=2, -numa node,cpus=3,nodeid=3, \ -numa node,cpus=4,nodeid=4, -numa node,cpus=5,nodeid=5, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=20, -numa dist,src=0,dst=2,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=3,val=40, -numa dist,src=0,dst=4,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=5,val=20, \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=2,val=20, -numa dist,src=1,dst=3,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=4,val=20, -numa dist,src=1,dst=5,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=2,dst=3,val=20, -numa dist,src=2,dst=4,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=2,dst=5,val=40, \ -numa dist,src=3,dst=4,val=20, -numa dist,src=3,dst=5,val=30, \ -numa dist,src=4,dst=5,val=20 Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/jhjtux5edo2.mognet@arm.com
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