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Valentin Schneider 6f693dd5be arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
The (CFS) scheduler has some extra logic catering to systems with SMT, but
that logic won't be compiled in unless the above config is set.

Note that the SMT-centric codepaths are gated by the sched_smt_present
static key, and the SMT sched_domains will only survive if the platform has
SMT. As such, the only impact on !SMT platforms should be a slightly
bigger kernel - no behavioural change.

Distro kernels already enable it, which makes sense since there already are
things like ThunderX2 out in the wild. Enable it for the defconfig.

Some deltas
===========

FWIW my ELF symbol table diff looks something like this:

  NAME                                BEFORE    AFTER     DELTA
  update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.135    0         1864      +1864
  find_idlest_group.isra.115          0         1808      +1808
  update_numa_stats.isra.121          0         628       +628
  select_task_rq_fair                 3236      3732      +496
  compute_energy.isra.112             0         420       +420
  score_nearby_nodes.part.120         0         380       +380
  __update_idle_core                  0         232       +232
  nohz_balance_exit_idle.part.127     0         216       +216
  sched_slice.isra.99                 0         172       +172
  update_load_avg.part.107            0         116       +116
  wakeup_preempt_entity.isra.101      0         92        +92
  sched_cpu_activate                  340       396       +56
  pick_next_task_idle                 8         56        +48
  sched_cpu_deactivate                252       292       +40
  show_smt_active                     44        80        +36
  cpu_smt_mask                        0         28        +28
  set_next_task_idle                  4         32        +28
  task_numa_work                      680       692       +12
  cpu_smt_flags                       0         8         +8
  enqueue_task_fair                   2608      2612      +4
  wakeup_preempt_entity.isra.104      92        0         -92
  update_load_avg                     1028      932       -96
  task_numa_migrate                   1824      1728      -96
  sched_slice.isra.102                172       0         -172
  nohz_balance_exit_idle.part.130     216       0         -216
  task_numa_find_cpu                  2116      1868      -248
  score_nearby_nodes.part.123         380       0         -380
  compute_energy.isra.115             420       0         -420
  update_numa_stats.isra.124          472       0         -472
  find_idlest_group.isra.118          1808      0         -1808
  update_sd_lb_stats.constprop.138    1864      0         -1864
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  DELTA SUM                                               +820

As for the sched_domains, this is on a hikey960:

before:
  $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu*/domain*/name | sort | uniq
  DIE
  MC

after:
  $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu*/domain*/name | sort | uniq
  DIE
  MC

Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227191433.31994-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2020-03-06 12:57:23 +01:00
arch arm64: defconfig: enable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT 2020-03-06 12:57:23 +01:00
block blk-mq: Remove some unused function arguments 2020-02-26 10:34:41 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity 2020-02-20 15:15:16 -08:00
Documentation sched/fair: Enable tuning of decay period 2020-03-06 12:57:21 +01:00
drivers thermal/cpu-cooling: Update thermal pressure in case of a maximum frequency capping 2020-03-06 12:57:21 +01:00
fs five small cifs/smb3 fixes, two for stable 2020-03-03 17:31:19 -06:00
include drivers/base/arch_topology: Add infrastructure to store and update instantaneous thermal pressure 2020-03-06 12:57:18 +01:00
init sched/pelt: Add support to track thermal pressure 2020-03-06 12:57:17 +01:00
ipc Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()" 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
kernel sched/topology: Don't enable EAS on SMT systems 2020-03-06 12:57:23 +01:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
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