RE: [PATCH V12 1/7] x86: Drop CPU_SUP_INTEL from SCHED_MC_PRIO for the expansion.

[Meng, Li (Jassmine)]

[AMD Official Use Only - General]

Hi Petkov:

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> Subject: Re: [PATCH V12 1/7] x86: Drop CPU_SUP_INTEL from
> SCHED_MC_PRIO for the expansion.
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> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 02:35:31PM +0800, Meng Li wrote:
> > amd-pstate driver also uses SCHED_MC_PRIO, so decouple the
> requirement
> > of CPU_SUP_INTEL from the dependencies to allow compilation in kernels
> > without Intel CPU support.
> >
> > Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index
> > 3762f41bb092..3e57773f946a 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -1054,8 +1054,9 @@ config SCHED_MC
> >
> >  config SCHED_MC_PRIO
> >       bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support"
> > -     depends on SCHED_MC && CPU_SUP_INTEL
> > -     select X86_INTEL_PSTATE
> > +     depends on SCHED_MC
> > +     select X86_INTEL_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_INTEL
> > +     select X86_AMD_PSTATE if CPU_SUP_AMD && ACPI
> >       select CPU_FREQ
> >       default y
> >       help
> > --
>
> I was gonna ask why the selects but apparently mingo wants
> SCHED_MC_PRIO to be selectable easier:
>
> 0a21fc1214a2 ("sched/x86: Make CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO=y easier to
> enable")
>
[Meng, Li (Jassmine)] Thank you for your feedback.
The reason why I added the selects is just to distinguish different pstate drivers.
These two drivers cannot be supported simultaneously in the same project.
> So,
>
> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thx.
>
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>     Boris.
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