Hi Reinette,
Email issues. Responding again..
On 5/2/2024 6:00 PM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
Hi Babu,
On 4/17/2024 3:52 PM, Moger, Babu wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 4/17/2024 3:56 PM, Peter Newman wrote:
Hi Babu,
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:39 PM Moger, Babu <babu.moger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/17/24 12:45, Peter Newman wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 6:10 PM Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
index 2d96565501ab..64ec70637c66 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
@@ -328,6 +328,77 @@ with the following files:
None of events are assigned on this mon group. This is a child
monitor group of the non default control mon group.
+ Assignment state can be updated by writing to this interface.
+
+ NOTE: Assignment on one domain applied on all the domains. User can
+ pass one valid domain and assignment will be updated on all the
+ available domains.
How would different assignments to different domains work? If the
allocations are global, then the allocated monitor ID is available to
all domains whether they use it or not.
That is correct.
[A] Hardware counters(max 2 per group) are allocated at the group level.
So, those counters are available to all the domains on that group. I will
maintain a bitmap at the domain level. The bitmap will be set on the
domains where assignment is applied and IPIs are sent. IPIs will not be
sent to other domains.
Unless the monitor allocation is scoped at the domain level, I don't
see much point in implementing the per-domain parsing today, as the
only benefit is avoiding IPIs to domains whose counters you don't plan
to read.
In that case lets remove the domain specific assignments. We can avoid some code complexity.
As I understand counters are scoped at the domain level and it is
an implementation choice to make the allocation global. (Similar to
the decision to make CLOSIDs global.)
Could you please elaborate how you plan to remove domain specific
assignments? I do think it needs to remain as part of the user interface
so I wonder if this may look like only "*=<flags>" is supported on
these systems and attempting to assign an individual domain may fail
with "not supported".
This series applies the assignment to all the domains.
For example:
# echo "//0=t" > /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_assign_control
User here wants to assign a monitor to total event on domain 0.
But this series applies monitor to all the domains in the system. IPIs
will be sent to all the domains.
Basically this is equivalent to
# echo "//*=t" > /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_assign_control
I was thinking of adding domain specific assignment in next version.
That involves adding a new field in rdt_domain to keep track of assignment.
Peter suggested it may not be much of a value add for his usage model.
Thanks
- Babu Moger
