Documentation: DT: arm: add support for sockets defining package boundaries
authorSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:52:56 +0000 (12:52 -0700)
committerPaul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:17:07 +0000 (09:17 -0700)
commit849b384f92bcadf2bd967f81ceeff815c9cd6af9
treefac884a5cdb301f629bfac1ac5e26d80b159fbd7
parent5f9e832c137075045d15cd6899ab0505cfb2ca4b
Documentation: DT: arm: add support for sockets defining package boundaries

The current ARM DT topology description provides the operating system
with a topological view of the system that is based on leaf nodes
representing either cores or threads (in an SMT system) and a
hierarchical set of cluster nodes that creates a hierarchical topology
view of how those cores and threads are grouped.

However this hierarchical representation of clusters does not allow to
describe what topology level actually represents the physical package or
the socket boundary, which is a key piece of information to be used by
an operating system to optimize resource allocation and scheduling.

Lets add a new "socket" node type in the cpu-map node to describe the
same.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/topology.txt