linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/21] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl_arch_rmid

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Message-ID: <a9d3aceb-c9b5-b269-a440-c65b8b983bf0@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 18:30:40 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     20220217182110.7176-1-james.morse@....com, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>,
        shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com,
        Jamie Iles <jamie@...iainc.com>,
        D Scott Phillips OS <scott@...amperecomputing.com>,
        lcherian@...vell.com, bobo.shaobowang@...wei.com,
        cristian.marussi@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/21] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl_arch_rmid_read()
 return values in bytes

Hi Cristian,

On 15/03/2022 12:10, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> I tested this on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120T trying to compare gathered
> resctrl monitor data with and without your series and see if results
> were consistent.
> 
> I started from this paper [0] from Intel itself for my basic setup with
> some minor variations:

[..]

> While doing that I collect in background (and out of node1 processors) all
> the mon_data from the lc_cos group every 100ms and dump those in a file one
> for each cache allocation mask. (mondata_LC_7f0_00f.txt etc)
> 
> I tested first against a v5.17-rc1 mainline without your series (named as
> 5.17.0-rc1-mainline in the results) and then again with your series on top
> (named as 5.17.0-rc1-00021-g21c69a5706a5). Got your series from [1].
> 
> Then I used gnuplot to see what was the 'profile' of this data with and
> without your series by plotting the LC process llc_occupancy data against
> time for each one of the runs with the differerent cache allocated.
> (each colored graphs represent a different run with a different
> cache allocation as reported)

> Hope this helps...

This is great, thanks!

Can I take this as a Tested-by?



Thanks,

James