Hello Aaron Durbin, ron minnich, build bot (Jenkins), Patrick Georgi,
I'd like you to reexamine a change. Please visit
https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/31545
to look at the new patch set (#3).
Change subject: acpi: Sort the reported APIC-IDs in the MADT table ......................................................................
acpi: Sort the reported APIC-IDs in the MADT table
coreboot performs MP-Init in a parallel way. That leads to the fact that the order, in which the CPUs are woken up, can vary from boot to boot. The creation of the MADT table just parses the devicetree and takes the CPUs reported there as it is for creating the single local APIC entries. Therefore, The OS will see different order of CPUs. There are CPUs out there (like Apollo Lake for example) which have shared caches on core-level and if the order is random this can end up in assigning cores to different tasks or even OSes (in a virtual enviroinment) which uses the same cache. This in turn will produce performance penalties across these distributed tasks/OSes.
Though there is a way on discover the core- and cache-topology it will in the end be necessary to take the APIC-ID into account. To simplify it, one can achieve the same output by sorting the APIC-IDs in an ascending order. This will lead to the fact that CPUs that share a given cache will be reported right next to each other in the MADT.
Change-Id: Ida74f9f00a4e2a03107a2124014403de60462735 Signed-off-by: Werner Zeh werner.zeh@siemens.com --- M src/arch/x86/acpi.c 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/45/31545/3