linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] ioctl based CAT interface

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Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:26:57 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
Cc:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...el.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Yu Fenghua <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ioctl based CAT interface

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:18:42AM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> Peter, I'm giving a serious try on the cgroups patches and would be
> glad to be enlightened if I'm missing something. But I don't see how
> what you're proposing would solve the problem.
> 
> My understanding of CAT is that if I want to reserve 80% of the cache
> in socket-1 to $thread-A I also have to:
> 
>  1. Create another mask reserving 20% of the cache in socket-1
>  2. Assign that mask to all other threads that may run in socket-1
> 
> If I'm right about this, then when a task with 20% reservation migrates
> to socket-2 it will only access 20% of the cache there even though there
> should be no restrictions in socket-2's cache.

Uh what? Task-A was bound to socket-1, it will never get to socket-2.

Clearly I'm not getting these examples you're throwing around.

Also, I explicitly do not want tasks that can migrate between sockets to
have different performance profiles across those sockets.
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