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authorHaifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com>2024-04-08 17:23:03 +0800
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2024-04-24 14:24:48 +0200
commit931be446c6cbc15691dd499957e961f4e1d56afb (patch)
tree5244e1021c9607b551d545716e6f58ba1da7d621 /Documentation/arch/x86
parent87739229485ac724849178eb6c35e38c6161eb77 (diff)
x86/resctrl: Add tracepoint for llc_occupancy tracking
In our production environment, after removing monitor groups, those unused RMIDs get stuck in the limbo list forever because their llc_occupancy is always larger than the threshold. But the unused RMIDs can be successfully freed by turning up the threshold. In order to know how much the threshold should be, perf can be used to acquire the llc_occupancy of RMIDs in each rdt domain. Instead of using perf tool to track llc_occupancy and filter the log manually, it is more convenient for users to use tracepoint to do this work. So add a new tracepoint that shows the llc_occupancy of busy RMIDs when scanning the limbo list. Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Suggested-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408092303.26413-3-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
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@@ -446,6 +446,12 @@ during mkdir.
max_threshold_occupancy is a user configurable value to determine the
occupancy at which an RMID can be freed.
+The mon_llc_occupancy_limbo tracepoint gives the precise occupancy in bytes
+for a subset of RMID that are not immediately available for allocation.
+This can't be relied on to produce output every second, it may be necessary
+to attempt to create an empty monitor group to force an update. Output may
+only be produced if creation of a control or monitor group fails.
+
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