[PATCH V2] arm64: add SCHED_CLUSTER's dependency on ACPI

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Apr 25 03:06:35 PDT 2022


On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 07:55:01PM -0700, Qing Wang wrote:
> From: Wang Qing <wangqing at vivo.com>
> 
> cluster sched_domain configured by cpu_topology[].cluster_sibling, 
> which is set by cluster_id, cluster_id can only get from ACPI.
> 
> If the system does not enable ACPI, cluster_id is always -1, even enable
> SCHED_CLUSTER is invalid, this is misleading. 
> 
> So we add SCHED_CLUSTER's dependency on ACPI here.
>

Any reason why this can't be extended to support DT based systems via
cpu-map in the device tree. IMO we almost have everything w.r.t topology
in DT and no reason to deviate this feature between ACPI and DT.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list