On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 04:56:18PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > This was the same in my previous posting too. Before the topology update > happened, all the cpus would be in SMT, DIE. The topology updates can be > disabled using a kernel parameter topology_updates=off. Its documented under > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html as > > topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA] Format: {off} Specify if the kernel > should ignore (off) topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this > LPAR. > > and is not something new in powerpc.
Doesn't mean it isn't utterly broken.
