This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL and the x86 /proc/cpuinfo
flag bits:
-============================================= ================================
+=============================================== ================================
RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation "rdt_a"
CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) "cat_l3", "cat_l2"
CDP (Code and Data Prioritization) "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2"
CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) "cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc"
MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring) "cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local"
MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) "mba"
-============================================= ================================
+SMBA (Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation) ""
+BMEC (Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration) ""
+=============================================== ================================
+
+Historically, new features were made visible by default in /proc/cpuinfo. This
+resulted in the feature flags becoming hard to parse by humans. Adding a new
+flag to /proc/cpuinfo should be avoided if user space can obtain information
+about the feature from resctrl's info directory.
To use the feature mount the file system::
"mon_features":
Lists the monitoring events if
monitoring is enabled for the resource.
+ Example::
+
+ # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mon_features
+ llc_occupancy
+ mbm_total_bytes
+ mbm_local_bytes
+
+ If the system supports Bandwidth Monitoring Event
+ Configuration (BMEC), then the bandwidth events will
+ be configurable. The output will be::
+
+ # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mon_features
+ llc_occupancy
+ mbm_total_bytes
+ mbm_total_bytes_config
+ mbm_local_bytes
+ mbm_local_bytes_config
+
+"mbm_total_bytes_config", "mbm_local_bytes_config":
+ Read/write files containing the configuration for the mbm_total_bytes
+ and mbm_local_bytes events, respectively, when the Bandwidth
+ Monitoring Event Configuration (BMEC) feature is supported.
+ The event configuration settings are domain specific and affect
+ all the CPUs in the domain. When either event configuration is
+ changed, the bandwidth counters for all RMIDs of both events
+ (mbm_total_bytes as well as mbm_local_bytes) are cleared for that
+ domain. The next read for every RMID will report "Unavailable"
+ and subsequent reads will report the valid value.
+
+ Following are the types of events supported:
+
+ ==== ========================================================
+ Bits Description
+ ==== ========================================================
+ 6 Dirty Victims from the QOS domain to all types of memory
+ 5 Reads to slow memory in the non-local NUMA domain
+ 4 Reads to slow memory in the local NUMA domain
+ 3 Non-temporal writes to non-local NUMA domain
+ 2 Non-temporal writes to local NUMA domain
+ 1 Reads to memory in the non-local NUMA domain
+ 0 Reads to memory in the local NUMA domain
+ ==== ========================================================
+
+ By default, the mbm_total_bytes configuration is set to 0x7f to count
+ all the event types and the mbm_local_bytes configuration is set to
+ 0x15 to count all the local memory events.
+
+ Examples:
+
+ * To view the current configuration::
+ ::
+
+ # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_total_bytes_config
+ 0=0x7f;1=0x7f;2=0x7f;3=0x7f
+
+ # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_local_bytes_config
+ 0=0x15;1=0x15;3=0x15;4=0x15
+
+ * To change the mbm_total_bytes to count only reads on domain 0,
+ the bits 0, 1, 4 and 5 needs to be set, which is 110011b in binary
+ (in hexadecimal 0x33):
+ ::
+
+ # echo "0=0x33" > /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_total_bytes_config
+
+ # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_total_bytes_config
+ 0=0x33;1=0x7f;2=0x7f;3=0x7f
+
+ * To change the mbm_local_bytes to count all the slow memory reads on
+ domain 0 and 1, the bits 4 and 5 needs to be set, which is 110000b
+ in binary (in hexadecimal 0x30):
+ ::
+
+ # echo "0=0x30;1=0x30" > /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_local_bytes_config
+
+ # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_local_bytes_config
+ 0=0x30;1=0x30;3=0x15;4=0x15
"max_threshold_occupancy":
Read/write file provides the largest value (in
MB:<cache_id0>=bw_MBps0;<cache_id1>=bw_MBps1;...
+Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation (SMBA)
+---------------------------------------
+AMD hardware supports Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation (SMBA).
+CXL.memory is the only supported "slow" memory device. With the
+support of SMBA, the hardware enables bandwidth allocation on
+the slow memory devices. If there are multiple such devices in
+the system, the throttling logic groups all the slow sources
+together and applies the limit on them as a whole.
+
+The presence of SMBA (with CXL.memory) is independent of slow memory
+devices presence. If there are no such devices on the system, then
+configuring SMBA will have no impact on the performance of the system.
+
+The bandwidth domain for slow memory is L3 cache. Its schemata file
+is formatted as:
+::
+
+ SMBA:<cache_id0>=bandwidth0;<cache_id1>=bandwidth1;...
+
Reading/writing the schemata file
---------------------------------
Reading the schemata file will show the state of all resources
L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=3c0;3=fffff
L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
+Reading/writing the schemata file (on AMD systems)
+--------------------------------------------------
+Reading the schemata file will show the current bandwidth limit on all
+domains. The allocated resources are in multiples of one eighth GB/s.
+When writing to the file, you need to specify what cache id you wish to
+configure the bandwidth limit.
+
+For example, to allocate 2GB/s limit on the first cache id:
+
+::
+
+ # cat schemata
+ MB:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
+ L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
+
+ # echo "MB:1=16" > schemata
+ # cat schemata
+ MB:0=2048;1= 16;2=2048;3=2048
+ L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
+
+Reading/writing the schemata file (on AMD systems) with SMBA feature
+--------------------------------------------------------------------
+Reading and writing the schemata file is the same as without SMBA in
+above section.
+
+For example, to allocate 8GB/s limit on the first cache id:
+
+::
+
+ # cat schemata
+ SMBA:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
+ MB:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
+ L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
+
+ # echo "SMBA:1=64" > schemata
+ # cat schemata
+ SMBA:0=2048;1= 64;2=2048;3=2048
+ MB:0=2048;1=2048;2=2048;3=2048
+ L3:0=ffff;1=ffff;2=ffff;3=ffff
+
Cache Pseudo-Locking
====================
CAT enables a user to specify the amount of cache space that an
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