linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 00/13] x86/resctrl: Support for AMD QoS new features

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Message-ID: <9e43dd11-38b3-fe0c-0929-8b454591813a@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:16:54 -0800
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/13] x86/resctrl: Support for AMD QoS new features

Hi Babu,

On 1/13/2023 7:20 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
> New AMD processors can now support following QoS features.
> 
> 1. Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation (SMBA)
>    With this feature, the QOS enforcement policies can be applied
>    to the 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.
> 
>    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.
> 
> 2. Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration (BMEC)
>    The bandwidth monitoring events mbm_total_event and mbm_local_event 
>    are set to count all the total and local reads/writes respectively.
>    With the introduction of slow memory, the two counters are not enough
>    to count all the different types are memory events. With the feature
>    BMEC, the users have the option to configure mbm_total_event and
>    mbm_local_event to count the specific type of events.
> 
>    Following are the bitmaps of events supported.
>    Bits    Description
>      6       Dirty Victims from the QOS domain to all types of memory
>      5       Reads to slow memory in the non-local NUMA domain
>      4       Reads to slow memory in the local NUMA domain
>      3       Non-temporal writes to non-local NUMA domain
>      2       Non-temporal writes to local NUMA domain
>      1       Reads to memory in the non-local NUMA domain
>      0       Reads to memory in the local NUMA domain
> 
> This series adds support for these features. Also added a minor cleanup(PATCH 1).
> 
> 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".
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
> Link: https://www.amd.com/en/support/tech-docs/amd64-technology-platform-quality-service-extensions

This series looks good to me. I added my "Reviewed-by" tag to patch 13/13. All
the other patches in this series already have my "Reviewed-by" tag.

Thank you very much. 

Reinette