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| author | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2024-06-28 14:56:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2024-07-02 20:03:19 +0200 |
| commit | ea34999f41873c96ac89e861e5fdfc7d0403f9e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 89e0bbd14626ce1f0ddc3183a16d779db8aa0a16 | |
| parent | 13488150f5e2a9b84a335ae18bee33a918ead85d (diff) | |
x86/resctrl: Update documentation with Sub-NUMA cluster changes
With Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) mode enabled, the scope of monitoring resources
is per-NODE instead of per-L3 cache. Backwards compatibility is maintained
by providing files in the mon_L3_XX directories that sum event counts
for all SNC nodes sharing an L3 cache.
New files provide per-SNC node event counts.
Users should be aware that SNC mode also affects the amount of L3 cache
available for allocation within each SNC node.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628215619.76401-20-tony.luck@intel.com
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst index 627e23869bca..a824affd741d 100644 --- a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst +++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst @@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ When monitoring is enabled all MON groups will also contain: all tasks in the group. In CTRL_MON groups these files provide the sum for all tasks in the CTRL_MON group and all tasks in MON groups. Please see example section for more details on usage. + On systems with Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) enabled there are extra + directories for each node (located within the "mon_L3_XX" directory + for the L3 cache they occupy). These are named "mon_sub_L3_YY" + where "YY" is the node number. "mon_hw_id": Available only with debug option. The identifier used by hardware @@ -484,6 +488,29 @@ if non-contiguous 1s value is supported. On a system with a 20-bit mask each bit represents 5% of the capacity of the cache. You could partition the cache into four equal parts with masks: 0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00, 0xf8000. +Notes on Sub-NUMA Cluster mode +============================== +When SNC mode is enabled, Linux may load balance tasks between Sub-NUMA +nodes much more readily than between regular NUMA nodes since the CPUs +on Sub-NUMA nodes share the same L3 cache and the system may report +the NUMA distance between Sub-NUMA nodes with a lower value than used +for regular NUMA nodes. + +The top-level monitoring files in each "mon_L3_XX" directory provide +the sum of data across all SNC nodes sharing an L3 cache instance. +Users who bind tasks to the CPUs of a specific Sub-NUMA node can read +the "llc_occupancy", "mbm_total_bytes", and "mbm_local_bytes" in the +"mon_sub_L3_YY" directories to get node local data. + +Memory bandwidth allocation is still performed at the L3 cache +level. I.e. throttling controls are applied to all SNC nodes. + +L3 cache allocation bitmaps also apply to all SNC nodes. But note that +the amount of L3 cache represented by each bit is divided by the number +of SNC nodes per L3 cache. E.g. with a 100MB cache on a system with 10-bit +allocation masks each bit normally represents 10MB. With SNC mode enabled +with two SNC nodes per L3 cache, each bit only represents 5MB. + Memory bandwidth Allocation and monitoring ========================================== |