Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] Represent cluster topology and enable load balance between clusters

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Oct 01 2021 - 10:58:11 EST


On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 12:39:56PM +0200, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 12:32, Barry Song <21cnbao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Vincent, Dietmar, Peter, Ingo,
> > Do you have any comment on this first series which exposes cluster topology
> > of ARM64 kunpeng 920 & x86 Jacobsville and supports load balance only for
> > the 1st stage?
> > I will be very grateful for your comments so that things can move forward in the
> > right direction. I think Tim also looks forward to bringing up cluster
> > support in
> > Jacobsville.
>
> This patchset makes sense to me and the addition of a new scheduling
> level to better reflect the HW topology goes in the right direction.

So I had a look, dreading the selecti-idle-sibling changes, and was
pleasantly surprised they're gone :-)

As is, this does indeed look like something mergable without too much
hassle.

The one questino I have is, do we want default y?

The one nit I have is the Kconfig text, I'm not really sure that's
clarifying what a cluster is.