Re: [PATCH v5 5/9] x86/sysctl: Add sysctl for ITMT scheduling feature

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Tim Chen wrote:

On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 16:35 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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+	if (itmt_supported) {
+		itmt_sysctl_header =
+			register_sysctl_table(itmt_root_table);
+		if (!itmt_sysctl_header) {
+			mutex_unlock(&itmt_update_mutex);
+			return;

So you now have a state of capable which cannot be enabled. Whats the
point?

For multi-socket system where ITMT is not enabled by default, the operator
can still decide to enable it via sysctl.

With a sysctl which failed to be installed. Good luck with that.
 

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+		}
+		/*
+		 * ITMT capability automatically enables ITMT
+		 * scheduling for small systems (single node).
+		 */
+		if (topology_num_packages() == 1)
+			sysctl_sched_itmt_enabled = 1;
+	} else {
+		if (itmt_sysctl_header)
+			unregister_sysctl_table(itmt_sysctl_header);
+	}
+
+	if (sysctl_sched_itmt_enabled) {
+		/* disable sched_itmt if we are no longer ITMT capable */
+		if (!itmt_supported)

How do you get here if itmt is not supported? 

If the OS decides to turn off ITMT for any reason, (i.e. invoke 
sched_set_itmt_support(false) after it has turned on itmt_support
before), this is the logic to do it.  We don't turn off ITMT support
after it has been turned on today, in the future the OS may.

Then please make this two functions (set/clear) so one can actually follow
the logic. The above is just too convoluted.

Thanks,

	tglx