Hi Tony,
On 5/30/24 4:46 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
When SNC mode is enabled the effective amount of L3 cache available
for allocation is divided by the number of nodes per L3.
This was a mistake in original implementation and no longer done.
My original kernel code adjusted value reported in the "size" file in resctrl.
That's no longer done because the effective size depends on how applications
are allocating and using memory. Since the kernel can't know that, it
seemed best to just report the total size of the cache.
But I think the resctrl tests still need to take this into account when running
llc_occupancy tests.
E.g. on a 2-way SNC system with a 100MB L3 cache a test that allocates
memory from its local SNC node (default behavior without using libnuma)
will only see 50 MB llc_occupancy with a fully populated L3 mask in the
schemata file.
This seems to contradict the "Cache and memory bandwidth allocation features
continue to operate at the scope of the L3 cache." statement from [1]?
Reinette
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240528222006.58283-1-tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx/
