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a6f771c9 5User Interface for Resource Control feature
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8:Copyright: |copy| 2016 Intel Corporation
9:Authors: - Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
10 - Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
11 - Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>
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14Intel refers to this feature as Intel Resource Director Technology(Intel(R) RDT).
15AMD refers to this feature as AMD Platform Quality of Service(AMD QoS).
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e6d42931 17This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL and the x86 /proc/cpuinfo
a6f771c9 18flag bits:
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21RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation "rdt_a"
22CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) "cat_l3", "cat_l2"
23CDP (Code and Data Prioritization) "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2"
24CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) "cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc"
25MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring) "cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local"
26MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) "mba"
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27SMBA (Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation) ""
28BMEC (Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration) ""
29=============================================== ================================
30
31Historically, new features were made visible by default in /proc/cpuinfo. This
32resulted in the feature flags becoming hard to parse by humans. Adding a new
33flag to /proc/cpuinfo should be avoided if user space can obtain information
34about the feature from resctrl's info directory.
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36To use the feature mount the file system::
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cb07d71f 38 # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2][,mba_MBps][,debug]] /sys/fs/resctrl
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39
40mount options are:
41
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42"cdp":
43 Enable code/data prioritization in L3 cache allocations.
44"cdpl2":
45 Enable code/data prioritization in L2 cache allocations.
46"mba_MBps":
47 Enable the MBA Software Controller(mba_sc) to specify MBA
a8ed59a3 48 bandwidth in MiBps
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49"debug":
50 Make debug files accessible. Available debug files are annotated with
51 "Available only with debug option".
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57794aab 53L2 and L3 CDP are controlled separately.
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1640ae94 55RDT features are orthogonal. A particular system may support only
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56monitoring, only control, or both monitoring and control. Cache
57pseudo-locking is a unique way of using cache control to "pin" or
58"lock" data in the cache. Details can be found in
59"Cache Pseudo-Locking".
60
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62The mount succeeds if either of allocation or monitoring is present, but
63only those files and directories supported by the system will be created.
64For more details on the behavior of the interface during monitoring
65and allocation, see the "Resource alloc and monitor groups" section.
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458b0d6e 67Info directory
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69
70The 'info' directory contains information about the enabled
71resources. Each resource has its own subdirectory. The subdirectory
a9cad3d4 72names reflect the resource names.
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74Each subdirectory contains the following files with respect to
75allocation:
76
77Cache resource(L3/L2) subdirectory contains the following files
78related to allocation:
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80"num_closids":
81 The number of CLOSIDs which are valid for this
82 resource. The kernel uses the smallest number of
83 CLOSIDs of all enabled resources as limit.
84"cbm_mask":
85 The bitmask which is valid for this resource.
86 This mask is equivalent to 100%.
87"min_cbm_bits":
88 The minimum number of consecutive bits which
89 must be set when writing a mask.
90
91"shareable_bits":
92 Bitmask of shareable resource with other executing
93 entities (e.g. I/O). User can use this when
94 setting up exclusive cache partitions. Note that
95 some platforms support devices that have their
96 own settings for cache use which can over-ride
97 these bits.
98"bit_usage":
99 Annotated capacity bitmasks showing how all
100 instances of the resource are used. The legend is:
101
102 "0":
103 Corresponding region is unused. When the system's
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105 in "bit_usage" it is a sign that resources are
106 wasted.
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108 "H":
109 Corresponding region is used by hardware only
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110 but available for software use. If a resource
111 has bits set in "shareable_bits" but not all
112 of these bits appear in the resource groups'
113 schematas then the bits appearing in
114 "shareable_bits" but no resource group will
115 be marked as "H".
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116 "X":
117 Corresponding region is available for sharing and
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118 used by hardware and software. These are the
119 bits that appear in "shareable_bits" as
120 well as a resource group's allocation.
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121 "S":
122 Corresponding region is used by software
cba1aab8 123 and available for sharing.
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124 "E":
125 Corresponding region is used exclusively by
cba1aab8 126 one resource group. No sharing allowed.
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127 "P":
128 Corresponding region is pseudo-locked. No
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130"sparse_masks":
131 Indicates if non-contiguous 1s value in CBM is supported.
132
133 "0":
134 Only contiguous 1s value in CBM is supported.
135 "1":
136 Non-contiguous 1s value in CBM is supported.
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57794aab 138Memory bandwidth(MB) subdirectory contains the following files
1640ae94 139with respect to allocation:
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141"min_bandwidth":
142 The minimum memory bandwidth percentage which
143 user can request.
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145"bandwidth_gran":
146 The granularity in which the memory bandwidth
147 percentage is allocated. The allocated
148 b/w percentage is rounded off to the next
149 control step available on the hardware. The
150 available bandwidth control steps are:
151 min_bandwidth + N * bandwidth_gran.
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153"delay_linear":
154 Indicates if the delay scale is linear or
155 non-linear. This field is purely informational
156 only.
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158"thread_throttle_mode":
159 Indicator on Intel systems of how tasks running on threads
160 of a physical core are throttled in cases where they
161 request different memory bandwidth percentages:
162
163 "max":
164 the smallest percentage is applied
165 to all threads
166 "per-thread":
167 bandwidth percentages are directly applied to
168 the threads running on the core
169
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170If RDT monitoring is available there will be an "L3_MON" directory
171with the following files:
172
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173"num_rmids":
174 The number of RMIDs available. This is the
175 upper bound for how many "CTRL_MON" + "MON"
176 groups can be created.
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178"mon_features":
179 Lists the monitoring events if
180 monitoring is enabled for the resource.
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181 Example::
182
183 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mon_features
184 llc_occupancy
185 mbm_total_bytes
186 mbm_local_bytes
187
188 If the system supports Bandwidth Monitoring Event
189 Configuration (BMEC), then the bandwidth events will
190 be configurable. The output will be::
191
192 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mon_features
193 llc_occupancy
194 mbm_total_bytes
195 mbm_total_bytes_config
196 mbm_local_bytes
197 mbm_local_bytes_config
198
199"mbm_total_bytes_config", "mbm_local_bytes_config":
200 Read/write files containing the configuration for the mbm_total_bytes
201 and mbm_local_bytes events, respectively, when the Bandwidth
202 Monitoring Event Configuration (BMEC) feature is supported.
203 The event configuration settings are domain specific and affect
204 all the CPUs in the domain. When either event configuration is
205 changed, the bandwidth counters for all RMIDs of both events
206 (mbm_total_bytes as well as mbm_local_bytes) are cleared for that
207 domain. The next read for every RMID will report "Unavailable"
208 and subsequent reads will report the valid value.
209
210 Following are the types of events supported:
211
212 ==== ========================================================
213 Bits Description
214 ==== ========================================================
215 6 Dirty Victims from the QOS domain to all types of memory
216 5 Reads to slow memory in the non-local NUMA domain
217 4 Reads to slow memory in the local NUMA domain
218 3 Non-temporal writes to non-local NUMA domain
219 2 Non-temporal writes to local NUMA domain
220 1 Reads to memory in the non-local NUMA domain
221 0 Reads to memory in the local NUMA domain
222 ==== ========================================================
223
224 By default, the mbm_total_bytes configuration is set to 0x7f to count
225 all the event types and the mbm_local_bytes configuration is set to
226 0x15 to count all the local memory events.
227
228 Examples:
229
230 * To view the current configuration::
231 ::
232
233 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_total_bytes_config
234 0=0x7f;1=0x7f;2=0x7f;3=0x7f
235
236 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_local_bytes_config
237 0=0x15;1=0x15;3=0x15;4=0x15
238
239 * To change the mbm_total_bytes to count only reads on domain 0,
240 the bits 0, 1, 4 and 5 needs to be set, which is 110011b in binary
241 (in hexadecimal 0x33):
242 ::
243
244 # echo "0=0x33" > /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_total_bytes_config
245
246 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_total_bytes_config
247 0=0x33;1=0x7f;2=0x7f;3=0x7f
248
249 * To change the mbm_local_bytes to count all the slow memory reads on
250 domain 0 and 1, the bits 4 and 5 needs to be set, which is 110000b
251 in binary (in hexadecimal 0x30):
252 ::
253
254 # echo "0=0x30;1=0x30" > /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_local_bytes_config
255
256 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_local_bytes_config
257 0=0x30;1=0x30;3=0x15;4=0x15
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259"max_threshold_occupancy":
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260 Read/write file provides the largest value (in
261 bytes) at which a previously used LLC_occupancy
262 counter can be considered for re-use.
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264Finally, in the top level of the "info" directory there is a file
265named "last_cmd_status". This is reset with every "command" issued
266via the file system (making new directories or writing to any of the
267control files). If the command was successful, it will read as "ok".
268If the command failed, it will provide more information that can be
269conveyed in the error returns from file operations. E.g.
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272 # echo L3:0=f7 > schemata
273 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
274 # cat info/last_cmd_status
275 mask f7 has non-consecutive 1-bits
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277Resource alloc and monitor groups
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f20e5789 280Resource groups are represented as directories in the resctrl file
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281system. The default group is the root directory which, immediately
282after mounting, owns all the tasks and cpus in the system and can make
283full use of all resources.
284
285On a system with RDT control features additional directories can be
286created in the root directory that specify different amounts of each
287resource (see "schemata" below). The root and these additional top level
288directories are referred to as "CTRL_MON" groups below.
289
290On a system with RDT monitoring the root directory and other top level
291directories contain a directory named "mon_groups" in which additional
292directories can be created to monitor subsets of tasks in the CTRL_MON
293group that is their ancestor. These are called "MON" groups in the rest
294of this document.
295
296Removing a directory will move all tasks and cpus owned by the group it
297represents to the parent. Removing one of the created CTRL_MON groups
298will automatically remove all MON groups below it.
299
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300Moving MON group directories to a new parent CTRL_MON group is supported
301for the purpose of changing the resource allocations of a MON group
302without impacting its monitoring data or assigned tasks. This operation
303is not allowed for MON groups which monitor CPUs. No other move
304operation is currently allowed other than simply renaming a CTRL_MON or
305MON group.
306
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307All groups contain the following files:
308
309"tasks":
310 Reading this file shows the list of all tasks that belong to
311 this group. Writing a task id to the file will add a task to the
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312 group. Multiple tasks can be added by separating the task ids
313 with commas. Tasks will be assigned sequentially. Multiple
314 failures are not supported. A single failure encountered while
315 attempting to assign a task will cause the operation to abort and
316 already added tasks before the failure will remain in the group.
317 Failures will be logged to /sys/fs/resctrl/info/last_cmd_status.
318
319 If the group is a CTRL_MON group the task is removed from
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320 whichever previous CTRL_MON group owned the task and also from
321 any MON group that owned the task. If the group is a MON group,
322 then the task must already belong to the CTRL_MON parent of this
323 group. The task is removed from any previous MON group.
324
325
326"cpus":
327 Reading this file shows a bitmask of the logical CPUs owned by
328 this group. Writing a mask to this file will add and remove
329 CPUs to/from this group. As with the tasks file a hierarchy is
330 maintained where MON groups may only include CPUs owned by the
331 parent CTRL_MON group.
57794aab 332 When the resource group is in pseudo-locked mode this file will
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333 only be readable, reflecting the CPUs associated with the
334 pseudo-locked region.
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336
337"cpus_list":
338 Just like "cpus", only using ranges of CPUs instead of bitmasks.
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1640ae94 341When control is enabled all CTRL_MON groups will also contain:
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344 A list of all the resources available to this group.
345 Each resource has its own line and format - see below for details.
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347"size":
348 Mirrors the display of the "schemata" file to display the size in
349 bytes of each allocation instead of the bits representing the
350 allocation.
351
352"mode":
353 The "mode" of the resource group dictates the sharing of its
354 allocations. A "shareable" resource group allows sharing of its
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355 allocations while an "exclusive" resource group does not. A
356 cache pseudo-locked region is created by first writing
357 "pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file before writing the cache
358 pseudo-locked region's schemata to the resource group's "schemata"
359 file. On successful pseudo-locked region creation the mode will
360 automatically change to "pseudo-locked".
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362"ctrl_hw_id":
363 Available only with debug option. The identifier used by hardware
364 for the control group. On x86 this is the CLOSID.
365
1640ae94 366When monitoring is enabled all MON groups will also contain:
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368"mon_data":
369 This contains a set of files organized by L3 domain and by
370 RDT event. E.g. on a system with two L3 domains there will
371 be subdirectories "mon_L3_00" and "mon_L3_01". Each of these
372 directories have one file per event (e.g. "llc_occupancy",
373 "mbm_total_bytes", and "mbm_local_bytes"). In a MON group these
374 files provide a read out of the current value of the event for
375 all tasks in the group. In CTRL_MON groups these files provide
376 the sum for all tasks in the CTRL_MON group and all tasks in
377 MON groups. Please see example section for more details on usage.
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379"mon_hw_id":
380 Available only with debug option. The identifier used by hardware
381 for the monitor group. On x86 this is the RMID.
382
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386When a task is running the following rules define which resources are
387available to it:
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3891) If the task is a member of a non-default group, then the schemata
1640ae94 390 for that group is used.
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3922) Else if the task belongs to the default group, but is running on a
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393 CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the schemata for the
394 CPU's group is used.
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3963) Otherwise the schemata for the default group is used.
397
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398Resource monitoring rules
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4001) If a task is a member of a MON group, or non-default CTRL_MON group
401 then RDT events for the task will be reported in that group.
402
4032) If a task is a member of the default CTRL_MON group, but is running
404 on a CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the RDT events
405 for the task will be reported in that group.
406
4073) Otherwise RDT events for the task will be reported in the root level
408 "mon_data" group.
409
410
411Notes on cache occupancy monitoring and control
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413When moving a task from one group to another you should remember that
414this only affects *new* cache allocations by the task. E.g. you may have
415a task in a monitor group showing 3 MB of cache occupancy. If you move
416to a new group and immediately check the occupancy of the old and new
417groups you will likely see that the old group is still showing 3 MB and
418the new group zero. When the task accesses locations still in cache from
419before the move, the h/w does not update any counters. On a busy system
420you will likely see the occupancy in the old group go down as cache lines
421are evicted and re-used while the occupancy in the new group rises as
422the task accesses memory and loads into the cache are counted based on
423membership in the new group.
424
425The same applies to cache allocation control. Moving a task to a group
426with a smaller cache partition will not evict any cache lines. The
427process may continue to use them from the old partition.
428
429Hardware uses CLOSid(Class of service ID) and an RMID(Resource monitoring ID)
430to identify a control group and a monitoring group respectively. Each of
431the resource groups are mapped to these IDs based on the kind of group. The
432number of CLOSid and RMID are limited by the hardware and hence the creation of
433a "CTRL_MON" directory may fail if we run out of either CLOSID or RMID
434and creation of "MON" group may fail if we run out of RMIDs.
435
436max_threshold_occupancy - generic concepts
437------------------------------------------
438
439Note that an RMID once freed may not be immediately available for use as
440the RMID is still tagged the cache lines of the previous user of RMID.
441Hence such RMIDs are placed on limbo list and checked back if the cache
442occupancy has gone down. If there is a time when system has a lot of
443limbo RMIDs but which are not ready to be used, user may see an -EBUSY
444during mkdir.
445
446max_threshold_occupancy is a user configurable value to determine the
447occupancy at which an RMID can be freed.
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449Schemata files - general concepts
450---------------------------------
451Each line in the file describes one resource. The line starts with
452the name of the resource, followed by specific values to be applied
453in each of the instances of that resource on the system.
454
455Cache IDs
456---------
457On current generation systems there is one L3 cache per socket and L2
458caches are generally just shared by the hyperthreads on a core, but this
459isn't an architectural requirement. We could have multiple separate L3
460caches on a socket, multiple cores could share an L2 cache. So instead
461of using "socket" or "core" to define the set of logical cpus sharing
462a resource we use a "Cache ID". At a given cache level this will be a
463unique number across the whole system (but it isn't guaranteed to be a
464contiguous sequence, there may be gaps). To find the ID for each logical
465CPU look in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/id
466
467Cache Bit Masks (CBM)
468---------------------
469For cache resources we describe the portion of the cache that is available
470for allocation using a bitmask. The maximum value of the mask is defined
471by each cpu model (and may be different for different cache levels). It
472is found using CPUID, but is also provided in the "info" directory of
aaa5fa35 473the resctrl file system in "info/{resource}/cbm_mask". Some Intel hardware
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474requires that these masks have all the '1' bits in a contiguous block. So
4750x3, 0x6 and 0xC are legal 4-bit masks with two bits set, but 0x5, 0x9
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476and 0xA are not. Check /sys/fs/resctrl/info/{resource}/sparse_masks
477if non-contiguous 1s value is supported. On a system with a 20-bit mask
478each bit represents 5% of the capacity of the cache. You could partition
479the cache into four equal parts with masks: 0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00, 0xf8000.
f20e5789 480
d6c64a4f 481Memory bandwidth Allocation and monitoring
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484For Memory bandwidth resource, by default the user controls the resource
485by indicating the percentage of total memory bandwidth.
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487The minimum bandwidth percentage value for each cpu model is predefined
488and can be looked up through "info/MB/min_bandwidth". The bandwidth
489granularity that is allocated is also dependent on the cpu model and can
490be looked up at "info/MB/bandwidth_gran". The available bandwidth
491control steps are: min_bw + N * bw_gran. Intermediate values are rounded
492to the next control step available on the hardware.
493
494The bandwidth throttling is a core specific mechanism on some of Intel
495SKUs. Using a high bandwidth and a low bandwidth setting on two threads
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496sharing a core may result in both threads being throttled to use the
497low bandwidth (see "thread_throttle_mode").
498
499The fact that Memory bandwidth allocation(MBA) may be a core
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500specific mechanism where as memory bandwidth monitoring(MBM) is done at
501the package level may lead to confusion when users try to apply control
502via the MBA and then monitor the bandwidth to see if the controls are
503effective. Below are such scenarios:
504
5051. User may *not* see increase in actual bandwidth when percentage
506 values are increased:
507
508This can occur when aggregate L2 external bandwidth is more than L3
509external bandwidth. Consider an SKL SKU with 24 cores on a package and
510where L2 external is 10GBps (hence aggregate L2 external bandwidth is
511240GBps) and L3 external bandwidth is 100GBps. Now a workload with '20
512threads, having 50% bandwidth, each consuming 5GBps' consumes the max L3
513bandwidth of 100GBps although the percentage value specified is only 50%
57794aab 514<< 100%. Hence increasing the bandwidth percentage will not yield any
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515more bandwidth. This is because although the L2 external bandwidth still
516has capacity, the L3 external bandwidth is fully used. Also note that
517this would be dependent on number of cores the benchmark is run on.
518
5192. Same bandwidth percentage may mean different actual bandwidth
520 depending on # of threads:
521
522For the same SKU in #1, a 'single thread, with 10% bandwidth' and '4
523thread, with 10% bandwidth' can consume upto 10GBps and 40GBps although
524they have same percentage bandwidth of 10%. This is simply because as
525threads start using more cores in an rdtgroup, the actual bandwidth may
526increase or vary although user specified bandwidth percentage is same.
527
528In order to mitigate this and make the interface more user friendly,
a8ed59a3 529resctrl added support for specifying the bandwidth in MiBps as well. The
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530kernel underneath would use a software feedback mechanism or a "Software
531Controller(mba_sc)" which reads the actual bandwidth using MBM counters
57794aab 532and adjust the memory bandwidth percentages to ensure::
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533
534 "actual bandwidth < user specified bandwidth".
535
536By default, the schemata would take the bandwidth percentage values
537where as user can switch to the "MBA software controller" mode using
538a mount option 'mba_MBps'. The schemata format is specified in the below
539sections.
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541L3 schemata file details (code and data prioritization disabled)
542----------------------------------------------------------------
1cd7af50 543With CDP disabled the L3 schemata format is::
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544
545 L3:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
546
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547L3 schemata file details (CDP enabled via mount option to resctrl)
548------------------------------------------------------------------
f20e5789 549When CDP is enabled L3 control is split into two separate resources
1cd7af50 550so you can specify independent masks for code and data like this::
f20e5789 551
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552 L3DATA:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
553 L3CODE:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
f20e5789 554
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555L2 schemata file details
556------------------------
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557CDP is supported at L2 using the 'cdpl2' mount option. The schemata
558format is either::
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560 L2:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
561
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562or
563
564 L2DATA:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
565 L2CODE:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
566
567
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571Memory b/w domain is L3 cache.
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574 MB:<cache_id0>=bandwidth0;<cache_id1>=bandwidth1;...
575
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579Memory bandwidth domain is L3 cache.
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585---------------------------------------
586AMD hardware supports Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation (SMBA).
587CXL.memory is the only supported "slow" memory device. With the
588support of SMBA, the hardware enables bandwidth allocation on
589the slow memory devices. If there are multiple such devices in
590the system, the throttling logic groups all the slow sources
591together and applies the limit on them as a whole.
592
593The presence of SMBA (with CXL.memory) is independent of slow memory
594devices presence. If there are no such devices on the system, then
595configuring SMBA will have no impact on the performance of the system.
596
597The bandwidth domain for slow memory is L3 cache. Its schemata file
598is formatted as:
599::
600
601 SMBA:<cache_id0>=bandwidth0;<cache_id1>=bandwidth1;...
602
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604---------------------------------
605Reading the schemata file will show the state of all resources
606on all domains. When writing you only need to specify those values
607which you wish to change. E.g.
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611 L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
612 L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
613 # echo "L3DATA:2=3c0;" > schemata
614 # cat schemata
615 L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=3c0;3=fffff
616 L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
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619--------------------------------------------------
620Reading the schemata file will show the current bandwidth limit on all
621domains. The allocated resources are in multiples of one eighth GB/s.
622When writing to the file, you need to specify what cache id you wish to
623configure the bandwidth limit.
624
625For example, to allocate 2GB/s limit on the first cache id:
626
627::
628
629 # cat schemata
630 MB:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
631 L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
632
633 # echo "MB:1=16" > schemata
634 # cat schemata
635 MB:0=2048;1= 16;2=2048;3=2048
636 L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
637
638Reading/writing the schemata file (on AMD systems) with SMBA feature
639--------------------------------------------------------------------
640Reading and writing the schemata file is the same as without SMBA in
641above section.
642
643For example, to allocate 8GB/s limit on the first cache id:
644
645::
646
647 # cat schemata
648 SMBA:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
649 MB:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
650 L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
651
652 # echo "SMBA:1=64" > schemata
653 # cat schemata
654 SMBA:0=2048;1= 64;2=2048;3=2048
655 MB:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
656 L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
657
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661application can fill. Cache pseudo-locking builds on the fact that a
662CPU can still read and write data pre-allocated outside its current
663allocated area on a cache hit. With cache pseudo-locking, data can be
664preloaded into a reserved portion of cache that no application can
665fill, and from that point on will only serve cache hits. The cache
666pseudo-locked memory is made accessible to user space where an
667application can map it into its virtual address space and thus have
668a region of memory with reduced average read latency.
669
670The creation of a cache pseudo-locked region is triggered by a request
671from the user to do so that is accompanied by a schemata of the region
672to be pseudo-locked. The cache pseudo-locked region is created as follows:
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675 from the user of the cache region that will contain the pseudo-locked
676 memory. This region must not overlap with any current CAT allocation/CLOS
677 on the system and no future overlap with this cache region is allowed
678 while the pseudo-locked region exists.
679- Create a contiguous region of memory of the same size as the cache
680 region.
681- Flush the cache, disable hardware prefetchers, disable preemption.
682- Make CLOSNEW the active CLOS and touch the allocated memory to load
683 it into the cache.
684- Set the previous CLOS as active.
685- At this point the closid CLOSNEW can be released - the cache
686 pseudo-locked region is protected as long as its CBM does not appear in
687 any CAT allocation. Even though the cache pseudo-locked region will from
688 this point on not appear in any CBM of any CLOS an application running with
689 any CLOS will be able to access the memory in the pseudo-locked region since
690 the region continues to serve cache hits.
691- The contiguous region of memory loaded into the cache is exposed to
692 user-space as a character device.
693
694Cache pseudo-locking increases the probability that data will remain
695in the cache via carefully configuring the CAT feature and controlling
696application behavior. There is no guarantee that data is placed in
697cache. Instructions like INVD, WBINVD, CLFLUSH, etc. can still evict
698“locked” data from cache. Power management C-states may shrink or
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700pseudo-locked region creation.
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702It is required that an application using a pseudo-locked region runs
703with affinity to the cores (or a subset of the cores) associated
704with the cache on which the pseudo-locked region resides. A sanity check
705within the code will not allow an application to map pseudo-locked memory
706unless it runs with affinity to cores associated with the cache on which the
707pseudo-locked region resides. The sanity check is only done during the
708initial mmap() handling, there is no enforcement afterwards and the
709application self needs to ensure it remains affine to the correct cores.
710
711Pseudo-locking is accomplished in two stages:
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714 of cache that should be dedicated to pseudo-locking. At this time an
715 equivalent portion of memory is allocated, loaded into allocated
716 cache portion, and exposed as a character device.
7172) During the second stage a user-space application maps (mmap()) the
718 pseudo-locked memory into its address space.
719
720Cache Pseudo-Locking Interface
721------------------------------
722A pseudo-locked region is created using the resctrl interface as follows:
723
7241) Create a new resource group by creating a new directory in /sys/fs/resctrl.
7252) Change the new resource group's mode to "pseudo-locksetup" by writing
726 "pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file.
7273) Write the schemata of the pseudo-locked region to the "schemata" file. All
728 bits within the schemata should be "unused" according to the "bit_usage"
729 file.
730
731On successful pseudo-locked region creation the "mode" file will contain
732"pseudo-locked" and a new character device with the same name as the resource
733group will exist in /dev/pseudo_lock. This character device can be mmap()'ed
734by user space in order to obtain access to the pseudo-locked memory region.
735
736An example of cache pseudo-locked region creation and usage can be found below.
737
738Cache Pseudo-Locking Debugging Interface
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741CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled) and can be found in /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl.
742
743There is no explicit way for the kernel to test if a provided memory
744location is present in the cache. The pseudo-locking debugging interface uses
745the tracing infrastructure to provide two ways to measure cache residency of
746the pseudo-locked region:
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749 from these measurements are best visualized using a hist trigger (see
750 example below). In this test the pseudo-locked region is traversed at
751 a stride of 32 bytes while hardware prefetchers and preemption
752 are disabled. This also provides a substitute visualization of cache
753 hits and misses.
7542) Cache hit and miss measurements using model specific precision counters if
755 available. Depending on the levels of cache on the system the pseudo_lock_l2
756 and pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoints are available.
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758When a pseudo-locked region is created a new debugfs directory is created for
759it in debugfs as /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/<newdir>. A single
760write-only file, pseudo_lock_measure, is present in this directory. The
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762debugfs file:
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771 pseudo_lock_l2 tracepoint. See example below.
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773 writing "3" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the L3 cache
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775 pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoint.
776
777All measurements are recorded with the tracing infrastructure. This requires
778the relevant tracepoints to be enabled before the measurement is triggered.
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783how we can measure the latency in cycles of reading from this region and
784visualize this data with a histogram that is available if CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
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788 # echo 'hist:keys=latency' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/trigger
789 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable
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792 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/hist
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794 # event histogram
795 #
796 # trigger info: hist:keys=latency:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active]
797 #
798
799 { latency: 456 } hitcount: 1
800 { latency: 50 } hitcount: 83
801 { latency: 36 } hitcount: 96
802 { latency: 44 } hitcount: 174
803 { latency: 48 } hitcount: 195
804 { latency: 46 } hitcount: 262
805 { latency: 42 } hitcount: 693
806 { latency: 40 } hitcount: 3204
807 { latency: 38 } hitcount: 3484
808
809 Totals:
810 Hits: 8192
811 Entries: 9
812 Dropped: 0
813
814Example of cache hits/misses debugging
815~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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817cache of a platform. Here is how we can obtain details of the cache hits
818and misses using the platform's precision counters.
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822 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable
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825 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace
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828 #
829 # _-----=> irqs-off
830 # / _----=> need-resched
831 # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
832 # || / _--=> preempt-depth
833 # ||| / delay
834 # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
835 # | | | |||| | |
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840~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
841
8421) Example 1
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847::
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850 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
851 # mkdir p0 p1
852 # echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
853 # echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
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855The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts
856of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f").
857
858Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the
859"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1.
860Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets.
861
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863maximum memory b/w of 50% on socket0 and 50% on socket 1.
864Tasks in group "p1" may also use 50% memory b/w on both sockets.
865Note that unlike cache masks, memory b/w cannot specify whether these
866allocations can overlap or not. The allocations specifies the maximum
867b/w that the group may be able to use and the system admin can configure
868the b/w accordingly.
869
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871max b/w in MB rather than the percentage values.
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875 # echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
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877In the above example the tasks in "p1" and "p0" on socket 0 would use a max b/w
878of 1024MB where as on socket 1 they would use 500MB.
879
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883
884Two real time tasks pid=1234 running on processor 0 and pid=5678 running on
885processor 1 on socket 0 on a 2-socket and dual core machine. To avoid noisy
886neighbors, each of the two real-time tasks exclusively occupies one quarter
887of L3 cache on socket 0.
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891 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
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893First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper"
a9cad3d4 89450% of the L3 cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory b/w cannot be used by
1cd7af50 895ordinary tasks::
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899Next we make a resource group for our first real time task and give
900it access to the "top" 25% of the cache on socket 0.
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906Finally we move our first real time task into this resource group. We
907also use taskset(1) to ensure the task always runs on a dedicated CPU
908on socket 0. Most uses of resource groups will also constrain which
909processors tasks run on.
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913 # taskset -cp 1 1234
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1cd7af50 915Ditto for the second real time task (with the remaining 25% of cache)::
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918 # echo "L3:0=7c00;1=fffff" > p1/schemata
919 # echo 5678 > p1/tasks
920 # taskset -cp 2 5678
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923schemata would look like(Assume min_bandwidth 10 and bandwidth_gran is
92410):
925
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927::
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931For our second real time task this would request an other 20% memory b/w
932on socket 0.
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1cd7af50 935 # echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata
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939A single socket system which has real-time tasks running on core 4-7 and
940non real-time workload assigned to core 0-3. The real-time tasks share text
941and data, so a per task association is not required and due to interaction
942with the kernel it's desired that the kernel on these cores shares L3 with
943the tasks.
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947 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
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949First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper"
a9cad3d4 95050% of the L3 cache on socket 0, and 50% of memory bandwidth on socket 0
1cd7af50 951cannot be used by ordinary tasks::
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956to the "top" 50% of the cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory bandwidth on
957socket 0.
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965also get 50% of memory bandwidth assuming that the cores 4-7 are SMT
966siblings and only the real time threads are scheduled on the cores 4-7.
1cd7af50 967::
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1cd7af50 969 # echo F0 > p0/cpus
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973The resource groups in previous examples were all in the default "shareable"
974mode allowing sharing of their cache allocations. If one resource group
975configures a cache allocation then nothing prevents another resource group
976to overlap with that allocation.
977
978In this example a new exclusive resource group will be created on a L2 CAT
979system with two L2 cache instances that can be configured with an 8-bit
980capacity bitmask. The new exclusive resource group will be configured to use
98125% of each cache instance.
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987First, we observe that the default group is configured to allocate to all L2
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991 L2:0=ff;1=ff
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995
996 # mkdir p0
997 # echo 'L2:0=0x3;1=0x3' > p0/schemata
998 # cat p0/mode
999 shareable
1000 # echo exclusive > p0/mode
1001 -sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
1002 # cat info/last_cmd_status
1003 schemata overlaps
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1005To ensure that there is no overlap with another resource group the default
1006resource group's schemata has to change, making it possible for the new
1007resource group to become exclusive.
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1010 # echo 'L2:0=0xfc;1=0xfc' > schemata
1011 # echo exclusive > p0/mode
1012 # grep . p0/*
1013 p0/cpus:0
1014 p0/mode:exclusive
1015 p0/schemata:L2:0=03;1=03
1016 p0/size:L2:0=262144;1=262144
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1021 # mkdir p1
1022 # grep . p1/*
1023 p1/cpus:0
1024 p1/mode:shareable
1025 p1/schemata:L2:0=fc;1=fc
1026 p1/size:L2:0=786432;1=786432
1027
1028The bit_usage will reflect how the cache is used::
1029
1030 # cat info/L2/bit_usage
1031 0=SSSSSSEE;1=SSSSSSEE
1032
1033A resource group cannot be forced to overlap with an exclusive resource group::
1034
1035 # echo 'L2:0=0x1;1=0x1' > p1/schemata
1036 -sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
1037 # cat info/last_cmd_status
1038 overlaps with exclusive group
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1043region is exposed at /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock that can be provided to
1044application for argument to mmap().
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1050Ensure that there are bits available that can be pseudo-locked, since only
1051unused bits can be pseudo-locked the bits to be pseudo-locked needs to be
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1053
1054 # cat info/L2/bit_usage
1055 0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSSS
1056 # echo 'L2:1=0xfc' > schemata
1057 # cat info/L2/bit_usage
1058 0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSS00
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1060Create a new resource group that will be associated with the pseudo-locked
1061region, indicate that it will be used for a pseudo-locked region, and
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1065 # echo pseudo-locksetup > newlock/mode
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1068On success the resource group's mode will change to pseudo-locked, the
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1071
1072 # cat newlock/mode
1073 pseudo-locked
1074 # cat info/L2/bit_usage
1075 0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSPP
1076 # ls -l /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock
1077 crw------- 1 root root 243, 0 Apr 3 05:01 /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock
1078
1079::
1080
1081 /*
1082 * Example code to access one page of pseudo-locked cache region
1083 * from user space.
1084 */
1085 #define _GNU_SOURCE
1086 #include <fcntl.h>
1087 #include <sched.h>
1088 #include <stdio.h>
1089 #include <stdlib.h>
1090 #include <unistd.h>
1091 #include <sys/mman.h>
1092
1093 /*
1094 * It is required that the application runs with affinity to only
1095 * cores associated with the pseudo-locked region. Here the cpu
1096 * is hardcoded for convenience of example.
1097 */
1098 static int cpuid = 2;
1099
1100 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
1101 {
1102 cpu_set_t cpuset;
1103 long page_size;
1104 void *mapping;
1105 int dev_fd;
1106 int ret;
1107
1108 page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
1109
1110 CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
1111 CPU_SET(cpuid, &cpuset);
1112 ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset);
1113 if (ret < 0) {
1114 perror("sched_setaffinity");
1115 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
1116 }
1117
1118 dev_fd = open("/dev/pseudo_lock/newlock", O_RDWR);
1119 if (dev_fd < 0) {
1120 perror("open");
1121 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
1122 }
1123
1124 mapping = mmap(0, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
1125 dev_fd, 0);
1126 if (mapping == MAP_FAILED) {
1127 perror("mmap");
1128 close(dev_fd);
1129 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
1130 }
1131
1132 /* Application interacts with pseudo-locked memory @mapping */
1133
1134 ret = munmap(mapping, page_size);
1135 if (ret < 0) {
1136 perror("munmap");
1137 close(dev_fd);
1138 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
1139 }
1140
1141 close(dev_fd);
1142 exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
1143 }
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1148Certain operations on the resctrl filesystem, composed of read/writes
1149to/from multiple files, must be atomic.
1150
1151As an example, the allocation of an exclusive reservation of L3 cache
1152involves:
1153
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1156 in any of the directory cbmmasks
1157 3. Create a new directory
1158 4. Set the bits found in step 2 to the new directory "schemata" file
1159
1160If two applications attempt to allocate space concurrently then they can
1161end up allocating the same bits so the reservations are shared instead of
1162exclusive.
1163
1164To coordinate atomic operations on the resctrlfs and to avoid the problem
1165above, the following locking procedure is recommended:
1166
1167Locking is based on flock, which is available in libc and also as a shell
1168script command
1169
1170Write lock:
1171
1172 A) Take flock(LOCK_EX) on /sys/fs/resctrl
1173 B) Read/write the directory structure.
1174 C) funlock
1175
1176Read lock:
1177
1178 A) Take flock(LOCK_SH) on /sys/fs/resctrl
1179 B) If success read the directory structure.
1180 C) funlock
1181
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1183
1184 # Atomically read directory structure
1185 $ flock -s /sys/fs/resctrl/ find /sys/fs/resctrl
1186
1187 # Read directory contents and create new subdirectory
1188
1189 $ cat create-dir.sh
1190 find /sys/fs/resctrl/ > output.txt
1191 mask = function-of(output.txt)
1192 mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/
1193 echo mask > /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/schemata
1194
1195 $ flock /sys/fs/resctrl/ ./create-dir.sh
1196
1197Example with C::
1198
1199 /*
1200 * Example code do take advisory locks
1201 * before accessing resctrl filesystem
1202 */
1203 #include <sys/file.h>
1204 #include <stdlib.h>
1205
1206 void resctrl_take_shared_lock(int fd)
1207 {
1208 int ret;
1209
1210 /* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */
1211 ret = flock(fd, LOCK_SH);
1212 if (ret) {
1213 perror("flock");
1214 exit(-1);
1215 }
1216 }
1217
1218 void resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(int fd)
1219 {
1220 int ret;
1221
1222 /* release lock on resctrl filesystem */
1223 ret = flock(fd, LOCK_EX);
1224 if (ret) {
1225 perror("flock");
1226 exit(-1);
1227 }
1228 }
1229
1230 void resctrl_release_lock(int fd)
1231 {
1232 int ret;
1233
1234 /* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */
1235 ret = flock(fd, LOCK_UN);
1236 if (ret) {
1237 perror("flock");
1238 exit(-1);
1239 }
1240 }
1241
1242 void main(void)
1243 {
1244 int fd, ret;
1245
1246 fd = open("/sys/fs/resctrl", O_DIRECTORY);
1247 if (fd == -1) {
1248 perror("open");
1249 exit(-1);
1250 }
1251 resctrl_take_shared_lock(fd);
1252 /* code to read directory contents */
1253 resctrl_release_lock(fd);
1254
1255 resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(fd);
1256 /* code to read and write directory contents */
1257 resctrl_release_lock(fd);
1258 }
1259
1260Examples for RDT Monitoring along with allocation usage
1261=======================================================
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1263----------------------
1264Reading an event file (for ex: mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy) would
1265show the current snapshot of LLC occupancy of the corresponding MON
1266group or CTRL_MON group.
1267
1268
1269Example 1 (Monitor CTRL_MON group and subset of tasks in CTRL_MON group)
1cd7af50 1270------------------------------------------------------------------------
1640ae94 1271On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits
1cd7af50 1272for cache bit masks::
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1275 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1276 # mkdir p0 p1
1277 # echo "L3:0=3;1=c" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
1278 # echo "L3:0=3;1=3" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
1279 # echo 5678 > p1/tasks
1280 # echo 5679 > p1/tasks
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1282The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts
1283of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f").
1284
1285Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the
1286"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1.
1287Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets.
1288
1289Create monitor groups and assign a subset of tasks to each monitor group.
1cd7af50 1290::
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1293 # mkdir m11 m12
1294 # echo 5678 > m11/tasks
1295 # echo 5679 > m12/tasks
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1297fetch data (data shown in bytes)
1cd7af50 1298::
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1300 # cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1301 16234000
1302 # cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
1303 14789000
1304 # cat m12/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1305 16789000
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1307The parent ctrl_mon group shows the aggregated data.
1cd7af50 1308::
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1311 31234000
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1313Example 2 (Monitor a task from its creation)
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1315On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket)::
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1318 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1319 # mkdir p0 p1
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1321An RMID is allocated to the group once its created and hence the <cmd>
1322below is monitored from its creation.
1cd7af50 1323::
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1326 # <cmd>
1640ae94 1327
1cd7af50 1328Fetch the data::
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1331 31789000
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1333Example 3 (Monitor without CAT support or before creating CAT groups)
1cd7af50 1334---------------------------------------------------------------------
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1336Assume a system like HSW has only CQM and no CAT support. In this case
1337the resctrl will still mount but cannot create CTRL_MON directories.
1338But user can create different MON groups within the root group thereby
1339able to monitor all tasks including kernel threads.
1340
1341This can also be used to profile jobs cache size footprint before being
1342able to allocate them to different allocation groups.
1cd7af50 1343::
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1346 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1347 # mkdir mon_groups/m01
1348 # mkdir mon_groups/m02
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1351 # echo 2467 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/tasks
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1353Monitor the groups separately and also get per domain data. From the
1354below its apparent that the tasks are mostly doing work on
1355domain(socket) 0.
1cd7af50 1356::
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1358 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1359 31234000
1360 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
1361 34555
1362 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1363 31234000
1364 # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
1365 32789
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1367
1368Example 4 (Monitor real time tasks)
1369-----------------------------------
1370
1371A single socket system which has real time tasks running on cores 4-7
1372and non real time tasks on other cpus. We want to monitor the cache
1373occupancy of the real time threads on these cores.
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1375
1376 # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
1377 # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1378 # mkdir p1
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1cd7af50 1380Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1::
1640ae94 1381
1cd7af50 1382 # echo f0 > p1/cpus
1640ae94 1383
1cd7af50 1384View the llc occupancy snapshot::
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1387 11234000
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1389Intel RDT Errata
1390================
1391
1392Intel MBM Counters May Report System Memory Bandwidth Incorrectly
1393-----------------------------------------------------------------
1394
1395Errata SKX99 for Skylake server and BDF102 for Broadwell server.
1396
1397Problem: Intel Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) counters track metrics
1398according to the assigned Resource Monitor ID (RMID) for that logical
1399core. The IA32_QM_CTR register (MSR 0xC8E), used to report these
1400metrics, may report incorrect system bandwidth for certain RMID values.
1401
1402Implication: Due to the errata, system memory bandwidth may not match
1403what is reported.
1404
1405Workaround: MBM total and local readings are corrected according to the
1406following correction factor table:
1407
1408+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1409|core count |rmid count |rmid threshold |correction factor|
1410+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1411|1 |8 |0 |1.000000 |
1412+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1413|2 |16 |0 |1.000000 |
1414+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1415|3 |24 |15 |0.969650 |
1416+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1417|4 |32 |0 |1.000000 |
1418+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1419|6 |48 |31 |0.969650 |
1420+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1421|7 |56 |47 |1.142857 |
1422+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1423|8 |64 |0 |1.000000 |
1424+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1425|9 |72 |63 |1.185115 |
1426+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1427|10 |80 |63 |1.066553 |
1428+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1429|11 |88 |79 |1.454545 |
1430+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1431|12 |96 |0 |1.000000 |
1432+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1433|13 |104 |95 |1.230769 |
1434+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1435|14 |112 |95 |1.142857 |
1436+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1437|15 |120 |95 |1.066667 |
1438+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1439|16 |128 |0 |1.000000 |
1440+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1441|17 |136 |127 |1.254863 |
1442+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1443|18 |144 |127 |1.185255 |
1444+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1445|19 |152 |0 |1.000000 |
1446+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1447|20 |160 |127 |1.066667 |
1448+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1449|21 |168 |0 |1.000000 |
1450+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1451|22 |176 |159 |1.454334 |
1452+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1453|23 |184 |0 |1.000000 |
1454+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1455|24 |192 |127 |0.969744 |
1456+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1457|25 |200 |191 |1.280246 |
1458+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1459|26 |208 |191 |1.230921 |
1460+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1461|27 |216 |0 |1.000000 |
1462+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1463|28 |224 |191 |1.143118 |
1464+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1465
1466If rmid > rmid threshold, MBM total and local values should be multiplied
1467by the correction factor.
1468
1469See:
1470
14711. Erratum SKX99 in Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family Specification Update:
1472http://web.archive.org/web/20200716124958/https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/scalable/xeon-scalable-spec-update.html
1473
14742. Erratum BDF102 in Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 Processor Product Family Specification Update:
1475http://web.archive.org/web/20191125200531/https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-e5-v4-spec-update.pdf
1476
14773. The errata in Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) on 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Reference Manual:
1478https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-resource-director-technology-rdt-reference-manual.html
1479
1480for further information.