Re: [PATCH v12 1/4] cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
From: Sudeep Holla
Date: Tue Mar 11 2025 - 10:43:37 EST
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:51:40PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently if architectures want to support HOTPLUG_SMT they need to
> provide a topology_is_primary_thread() telling the framework which
> thread in the SMT cannot offline. However arm64 doesn't have a
> restriction on which thread in the SMT cannot offline, a simplest
> choice is that just make 1st thread as the "primary" thread. So
> just make this as the default implementation in the framework and
> let architectures like x86 that have special primary thread to
> override this function (which they've already done).
>
> There's no need to provide a stub function if !CONFIG_SMP or
> !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT. In such case the testing CPU is already
> the 1st CPU in the SMT so it's always the primary thread.
>
LGTM:
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> + * enabled/active. Architectures do have a special primary thread
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Regards,
Sudeep