Re: [RFT][PATCH v1 7/8] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Align perf domains with L2 cache

[Dietmar Eggemann]

On 30/04/2025 21:29, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM Dietmar Eggemann
> <dietmar.eggemann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 16/04/2025 20:10, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

[...]

>> There seems to be an issue with late CPU-hotplug-in and this alignment
>> on L2 cache boundaries.

[...]

> I see.
> 
> What happens is that cpu_cacheinfo hides information on offline CPUs,
> so when CPU20 goes online, it doesn't see any other CPUs sharing the
> L2 with it.  Accordingly, a PD is created just for itself.
> 
> When CPU21 goes online, it sees that CPU20 shares the L2 with it, so
> the code attempts to create a PD for them both which fails.
> 
> This could be addressed, but the code would need to be a bit more
> complex and the current hardware seems to do better with a PD per CPU,
> so I'll drop the $subject patch for now.

Ah OK, thanks!