On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 05:14:41PM +0100, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
I found an issue that the NUMA domains are not built on qemu with:
qemu-system-aarch64 \ -kernel ${Image} \ -smp 8 \ -cpu cortex-a72 \ -m 32G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=node0,size=8G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=node1,size=8G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=node2,size=8G \ -object memory-backend-ram,id=node3,size=8G \ -numa node,memdev=node0,cpus=0-1,nodeid=0 \ -numa node,memdev=node1,cpus=2-3,nodeid=1 \ -numa node,memdev=node2,cpus=4-5,nodeid=2 \ -numa node,memdev=node3,cpus=6-7,nodeid=3 \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=1,val=12 \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=2,val=20 \ -numa dist,src=0,dst=3,val=22 \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=2,val=22 \ -numa dist,src=1,dst=3,val=24 \ -numa dist,src=2,dst=3,val=12 \ -machine virt,iommu=smmuv3 \ -net none \ -initrd ${Rootfs} \ -nographic \ -bios QEMU_EFI.fd \ -append "rdinit=/init console=ttyAMA0 earlycon=pl011,0x9000000 sched_verbose loglevel=8"
I can see the schedule domain build stops at MC level since we reach all the cpus in the system:
[ 2.141316] CPU0 attaching sched-domain(s): [ 2.142558] domain-0: span=0-7 level=MC [ 2.145364] groups: 0:{ span=0 cap=964 }, 1:{ span=1 cap=914 }, 2:{ span=2 cap=921 }, 3:{ span=3 cap=964 }, 4:{ span=4 cap=925 }, 5:{ span=5 cap=964 }, 6:{ span=6 cap=967 }, 7:{ span=7 cap=967 } [ 2.158357] CPU1 attaching sched-domain(s): [ 2.158964] domain-0: span=0-7 level=MC [...]
It took me a bit to reproduce this as it requires "QEMU emulator version 7.1.0" otherwise there won't be a PPTT table.
Is this new PPTT presenting what we'd expect from the qemu topology? e.g. if it's presenting a cluster layer in the PPTT - should it be? Or should that be limited to the SRAT table only?