xen: credit2: limit the max number of CPUs in a runqueue
In Credit2 CPUs (can) share runqueues, depending on the topology. For
instance, with per-socket runqueues (the default) all the CPUs that are
part of the same socket share a runqueue.
On platform with a huge number of CPUs per socket, that could be a
problem. An example is AMD EPYC2 servers, where we can have up to 128
CPUs in a socket.
It is of course possible to define other, still topology-based, runqueue
arrangements (e.g., per-LLC, per-DIE, etc). But that may still result in
runqueues with too many CPUs on other/future platforms. For instance, a
system with 96 CPUs and 2 NUMA nodes will end up having 48 CPUs per
runqueue. Not as bad, but still a lot!
Therefore, let's set a limit to the max number of CPUs that can share a
Credit2 runqueue. The actual value is configurable (at boot time), the
default being 16. If, for instance, there are more than 16 CPUs in a
socket, they'll be split among two (or more) runqueues.
Note: with core scheduling enabled, this parameter sets the max number
of *scheduling resources* that can share a runqueue. Therefore, with
granularity set to core (and assumint 2 threads per core), we will have
at most 16 cores per runqueue, which corresponds to 32 threads. But that
is fine, considering how core scheduling works.