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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 19:02:21 +0000
From: "Moger, Babu" <Babu.Moger@....com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 03/13] x86/cpufeatures: Add Slow Memory Bandwidth
Allocation feature flag
[AMD Official Use Only - General]
Hi Reinette,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 10:54 AM
> To: Moger, Babu <Babu.Moger@....com>; corbet@....net;
> tglx@...utronix.de; mingo@...hat.com; bp@...en8.de
> Cc: fenghua.yu@...el.com; dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com; x86@...nel.org;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/13] x86/cpufeatures: Add Slow Memory Bandwidth
> Allocation feature flag
>
> Hi Babu,
>
> On 9/7/2022 11:00 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
> > Adds the new AMD feature X86_FEATURE_SMBA. With this feature, the QOS
>
> Adds -> Add
Sure
>
> > enforcement policies can be applied to external slow memory connected
> > to the host. QOS enforcement is accomplished by assigning a Class Of
> > Service (COS) to a processor and specifying allocations or limits for
> > that COS for each resource to be allocated.
> >
> > This feature is identified by the CPUID Function 8000_0020_EBX_x0.
> >
> > CPUID Fn8000_0020_EBX_x0 AMD Bandwidth Enforcement Feature
> Identifiers (ECX=0)
> > Bits Field Name Description
> > 2 L3SBE L3 external slow memory bandwidth enforcement
> >
> > Currently, CXL.memory is the only supported "slow" memory device. With
> > the support of SMBA feature the hardware enables bandwidth allocation
> > on the slow memory devices. If there are multiple slow memory devices
> > in the system, then the throttling logic groups all the slow sources
> > together and applies the limit on them as a whole.
>
> The above is a useful addition (made in patch 13/13) to the documentation ...
>
> >
> > The presence of the SMBA feature(with CXL.memory) is independent of
> > whether slow memory device is actually present in the system. If there
> > is no slow memory in the system, then setting a SMBA limit will have
> > no impact on the performance of the system.
>
> ... could the above snippet also please be added to the documentation?
>
Ok Sure.
> >
> > Presence of CXL memory can be identified by numactl command.
> >
> > $numactl -H
> > available: 2 nodes (0-1)
> > node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 node 0 size:
> > 63678 MB node 0 free: 59542 MB node 1 cpus:
> > node 1 size: 16122 MB
> > node 1 free: 15627 MB
> > node distances:
> > node 0 1
> > 0: 10 50
> > 1: 50 10
> >
> > CPU list for CXL memory will be emply. The cpu-cxl node distance is
> > greater
>
> emply -> empty?
ok
>
> > than cpu-to-cpu distances. Node 1 has the CXL memory in this case. CXL
> > memory can also be identified using ACPI SRAT table and memory maps.
> >
> > Feature description is available in the specification, "AMD64
> > Technology Platform Quality of Service Extensions, Revision: 1.03 Publication
> # 56375 Revision: 1.03 Issue Date: February 2022".
>
> Please shorten these lines to the recommended 75 chars per line.
Sure
>
> >
> > Link:
> > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.
> > amd.com%2Fen%2Fsupport%2Ftech-docs%2Famd64-technology-platform-
> quality
> > -service-
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> >
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> > Link:
> > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugz
> >
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> u.m
> >
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> >
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> > D&reserved=0
> > Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > index 235dc85c91c3..1815435c9c88 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> > @@ -304,6 +304,7 @@
> > #define X86_FEATURE_UNRET (11*32+15) /* "" AMD BTB
> untrain return */
> > #define X86_FEATURE_USE_IBPB_FW (11*32+16) /* "" Use IBPB
> during runtime firmware calls */
> > #define X86_FEATURE_RSB_VMEXIT_LITE (11*32+17) /* "" Fill RSB on
> VM exit when EIBRS is enabled */
> > +#define X86_FEATURE_SMBA (11*32+18) /* SLOW Memory
> Bandwidth Allocation */
>
> Why is "SLOW" in all caps?
Will correct it.
>
> >
> > /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:1 (EAX), word 12 */
> > #define X86_FEATURE_AVX_VNNI (12*32+ 4) /* AVX VNNI
> instructions */
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
> > b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c index fd44b54c90d5..885ecf46abb2
> > 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
> > @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static const struct cpuid_bit cpuid_bits[] = {
> > { X86_FEATURE_CPB, CPUID_EDX, 9, 0x80000007, 0 },
> > { X86_FEATURE_PROC_FEEDBACK, CPUID_EDX, 11, 0x80000007, 0 },
> > { X86_FEATURE_MBA, CPUID_EBX, 6, 0x80000008, 0 },
> > + { X86_FEATURE_SMBA, CPUID_EBX, 2, 0x80000020, 0 },
> > { X86_FEATURE_PERFMON_V2, CPUID_EAX, 0, 0x80000022, 0 },
> > { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
> > };
> >
> >
>
> Could you please follow the coding style (wrt tabs vs. spaces) of the area you
> are contributing to here? Please do so in all patches in this series.
Sure. Thanks
Babu Moger
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