RE: [PATCH v2 10/33] x86/intel_rdt: Implement scheduling support for Intel RDT

[Yu, Fenghua]

> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 2:54 AM
> 
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > +extern struct static_key rdt_enable_key; void
> > +__intel_rdt_sched_in(void *dummy);
> > +
> >  struct clos_cbm_table {
> >  	unsigned long cbm;
> >  	unsigned int clos_refcnt;
> >  };
> >
> > +/*
> > + * intel_rdt_sched_in() - Writes the task's CLOSid to IA32_PQR_MSR
> > + *
> > + * Following considerations are made so that this has minimal impact
> > + * on scheduler hot path:
> > + * - This will stay as no-op unless we are running on an Intel SKU
> > + * which supports L3 cache allocation.
> > + * - When support is present and enabled, does not do any
> > + * IA32_PQR_MSR writes until the user starts really using the feature
> > + * ie creates a rdtgroup directory and assigns a cache_mask thats
> > + * different from the root rdtgroup's cache_mask.
> > + * - Caches the per cpu CLOSid values and does the MSR write only
> > + * when a task with a different CLOSid is scheduled in. That
> > + * means the task belongs to a different rdtgroup.
> > + * - Closids are allocated so that different rdtgroup directories
> > + * with same cache_mask gets the same CLOSid. This minimizes CLOSids
> > + * used and reduces MSR write frequency.
> > + */
> > +static inline void intel_rdt_sched_in(void) {
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Call the schedule in code only when RDT is enabled.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (static_key_false(&rdt_enable_key))
> 
> static_branch_[un]likely() is the proper function to use.

How to do this? Should I change the line to

+ if (static_branch_unlikely(&rdt_enable_key))
?

Thanks.

-Fenghua