sched/x86: Change CONFIG_SCHED_ITMT to CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO
Rename CONFIG_SCHED_ITMT for Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0
to CONFIG_SCHED_MC_PRIO. This makes the configuration extensible
in future to other architectures that wish to similarly establish
CPU core priorities support in the scheduler.
The description in Kconfig is updated to reflect this change with
added details for better clarity. The configuration is explicitly
default-y, to enable the feature on CPUs that have this feature.
It has no effect on non-TBM3 CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@suse.de
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b2ee29d93e3f162922d72d0165a1405864fbb23.1480444902.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 25950f0..715c1f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -939,14 +939,24 @@
making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
-config SCHED_ITMT
- bool "Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology (ITMT) scheduler support"
+config SCHED_MC_PRIO
+ bool "CPU core priorities scheduler support"
depends on SCHED_MC && CPU_SUP_INTEL && X86_INTEL_PSTATE
+ default y
---help---
- ITMT enabled scheduler support improves the CPU scheduler's decision
- to move tasks to cpu core that can be boosted to a higher frequency
- than others. It will have better performance at a cost of slightly
- increased overhead in task migrations. If unsure say N here.
+ Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enabled CPUs have a
+ core ordering determined at manufacturing time, which allows
+ certain cores to reach higher turbo frequencies (when running
+ single threaded workloads) than others.
+
+ Enabling this kernel feature teaches the scheduler about
+ the TBM3 (aka ITMT) priority order of the CPU cores and adjusts the
+ scheduler's CPU selection logic accordingly, so that higher
+ overall system performance can be achieved.
+
+ This feature will have no effect on CPUs without this feature.
+
+ If unsure say Y here.
source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
