[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/2] x86 SMP: enables core-pair topology detection for AMD CPUs

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 24.06.11 at 00:51, Wei Huang <wei.huang2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following two patches enable core-pair topology detection for AMD 
> CPUs. The main idea is to record compute unit information into 
> cpuinfo_x86 and use it when building sibling map. The sibling map will 
> be used by Xen credit scheduler to coordinate VCPU scheduling in a 
> fashion similar to SMT. This code is very similar to upstream Linux kernel.
> 
> Regarding the performance improvement, I saw ~8% improvement running 
> kernel compilation on Dom0 with this patch. Anrea Przywara ran a POVRay 
> benchmark using this patch and he saw ~5% improvement. No perf 
> degradation was seen so far.
> 
> Please review.

Apart from some indentation issues these look fine to me.

Jan

> Thanks,
> -Wei




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