Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/resctrl: Move the task's threads to the group automatically

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Hi Reinette,

On 1/4/23 10:43, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Babu,
>
> On 1/3/2023 2:06 PM, Babu Moger wrote:
>> Some micro benchmarks run multiple threads when started. Monitoring
>> (or controlling) the benchmark using the task id is bit tricky. Users
>> need to track all the threads and assign them individually to monitor
>> or control. For example:
>>   $stream_lowOverhead -codeAlg 13 -nRep 100000 -cores 0 1 2 3 -memMB 32
>>   -alignKB 8192 -aPadB 0 -bPadB 0 -cPadB 0 -testMask 1
>>
>>   $pidof stream_lowOverhead
>>   6793
>>
>> This benchmark actually runs multiple threads underneath on the cores
>> listed above. It can be seen with the command:
>>   $ps -T -p 6793
>>    PID   SPID TTY          TIME CMD
>>   6793   6793 pts/2    00:00:00 stream_lowOverh
>>   6793   6802 pts/2    00:01:25 stream_lowOverh
>>   6793   6803 pts/2    00:01:25 stream_lowOverh
>>   6793   6804 pts/2    00:01:25 stream_lowOverh
>>   6793   6805 pts/2    00:01:25 stream_lowOverh
>>
>> Users need to assign these threads individually to the resctrl group for
>> monitoring or controlling.
>>
>>   $echo 6793 > /sys/fs/restrl/clos1/tasks
>>   $echo 6802 > /sys/fs/restrl/clos1/tasks
>>   $echo 6803 > /sys/fs/restrl/clos1/tasks
>>   $echo 6804 > /sys/fs/restrl/clos1/tasks
>>   $echo 6805 > /sys/fs/restrl/clos1/tasks
>>
>> That is not easy when dealing with numerous threads.
> How about:
>
> # echo $$ > /sys/fs/resctrl/clos1/tasks
> # stream_lowOverhead -codeAlg 13 -nRep 100000 -cores 0 1 2 3 -memMB 32\
>    -alignKB 8192 -aPadB 0 -bPadB 0 -cPadB 0 -testMask 1

Yes, That works. We can use that as a work-around for now.

I will drop this patch for now. I will have to figure out how to handle
failures in the middle of task/thread movement.

Will have to revisit this in the future. Will re-submit patch 1 and 3.

Thanks

Babu


>
> Reinette

-- 
Thanks
Babu Moger




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