Re: [RFC PATCHv2 00/10] x86 RDT Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT)

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On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:00:48PM +0800, Wang Huaqiang wrote:

This is the V2 of RFC and the POC source code for introducing x86 RDT CMT
feature, thanks Martin Kletzander for his review and constructive
suggestion for V1.

This series is trying to provide the similar functions of the perf event
based CMT, MBMT and MBML features in reporting cache occupancy, total
memory bandwidth utilization and local memory bandwidth utilization
information in livirt. Firstly we focus on cmt.

x86 RDT Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT) provides a medthod to track the
cache occupancy information per CPU thread. We are leveraging the
implementation of kernel resctrl filesystem and create our patches on top
of that.

Describing the functionality from a high level:

1. Extend the output of 'domstats' and report CMT inforamtion.

Comparing with perf event based CMT implementation in libvirt, this series
extends the output of command 'domstat' and reports cache occupancy
information like these:
<pre>
[root@dl-c200 libvirt]# virsh domstats vm3 --cpu-resource
Domain: 'vm3'
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_2.value=4415488
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_2.vcpus=2
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_1.value=7839744
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_1.vcpus=1
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0,3.value=53796864
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0,3.vcpus=0,3
</pre>
The vcpus have been arragned into three monitoring groups, these three
groups cover vcpu 1, vcpu 2 and vcpus 0,3 respectively. Take an example,
the 'cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0,3.value' reports the cache occupancy
information for vcpu 0 and vcpu 3, the 'cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0,3.vcpus'
represents the vcpu group information.

To address Martin's suggestion "beware as 1-4 is something else than 1,4 so
you need to differentiate that.", the content of 'vcpus'
(cpu.cacheoccupancy.<groupname>.vcpus=xxx) has been specially processed, if
vcpus is a continous range, e.g. 0-2, then the output of
cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0-2.vcpus will be like
'cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0-2.vcpus=0,1,2'
instead of
'cpu.cacheoccupancy.vcpus_0-2.vcpus=0-2'.
Please note that 'vcpus_0-2' is a name of this monitoring group, could be
specified any other word from the XML configuration file or lively changed
with the command introduced in following part.


One small nit according to the naming (but it shouldn't block any reviewers from
reviewing, just keep this in mind for next version for example) is that this is
still inconsistent.  The way domstats are structured when there is something
like an array could shed some light into this.  What you suggested is really
kind of hard to parse (although looks better).  What would you say to something
like this:

 cpu.cacheoccupancy.count = 3
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.0.value=4415488
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.0.vcpus=2
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.0.name=vcpus_2
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.1.value=7839744
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.1.vcpus=1
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.1.name=vcpus_1
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.2.value=53796864
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.2.vcpus=0,3
 cpu.cacheoccupancy.2.name=0,3

Other than that I didn't go through all the patches now, sorry.

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