[RFC PATCH v2 2/2] scheduler: add scheduler level for clusters

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 04:04:04PM +0000, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> 
> Gating this behind this new config only leveraged by arm64 doesn't make it
> very generic. Note that powerpc also has this newish "CACHE" level which
> seems to overlap in function with your "CLUSTER" one (both are arch
> specific, though).
> 
> I think what you are after here is an SD_SHARE_PKG_RESOURCES domain walk,
> i.e. scan CPUs by increasing cache "distance". We already have it in some
> form, as we scan SMT & LLC domains; AFAICT LLC always maps to MC, except
> for said powerpc's CACHE thingie.

There's some intel chips with a smaller L2, but I don't think we ever
bothered.

There's also the extended topology stuff from Intel: SMT, Core, Module,
Tile, Die, of which we've only partially used Die I think.

Whatever we do, it might make sense to not all use different names.

Also, I think Mel said he was cooking something for
select_idle_balance().

Also, I've previously posted patches that fold all the iterations into
one, so it might make sense to revisit some of that if Mel also already
didn.t