Re: [PATCH 04/10] MIPS: Netlogic: Split XLP L1 i-cache among threads

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:41:56PM +0530, Jayachandran C wrote:

> Since we now use r4k cache code for Netlogic XLP, it is
> better to split L1 icache among the active threads, so that
> threads won't step on each other while flushing icache.
> 
> The L1 dcache is already split among the threads in the core.

It's a bit orthogonal to your patch but you may want to look at adding
support for SYS_SUPPORTS_SCHED_SMT which scheduler support for SMT that
is tries to schedule threads in a shared cache friendly way.  See
0ab7aefc4d43a6dee26c891b41ef9c7a67d2379b [[MIPS] MT: Scheduler support for
SMT].

  Ralf