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Message-Id: <20230722190740.326190-7-tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:07:39 -0700
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
Peter Newman <peternewman@...gle.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, x86@...nel.org
Cc: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@...cinc.com>,
Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
patches@...ts.linux.dev, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/resctrl: Update documentation with Sub-NUMA cluster changes
With Sub-NUMA Cluster mode enabled the scope of monitoring resources is
per-NODE instead of per-L3 cache. Suffixes of directories with "L3" in
their name refer to Sub-NUMA nodes instead of L3 cache ids.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@...gle.com>
---
Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
index cb05d90111b4..4d9ddb91751d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
@@ -345,9 +345,13 @@ When control is enabled all CTRL_MON groups will also contain:
When monitoring is enabled all MON groups will also contain:
"mon_data":
- This contains a set of files organized by L3 domain and by
- RDT event. E.g. on a system with two L3 domains there will
- be subdirectories "mon_L3_00" and "mon_L3_01". Each of these
+ This contains a set of files organized by L3 domain or by NUMA
+ node (depending on whether Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) mode is disabled
+ or enabled respectively) and by RDT event. E.g. on a system with
+ SNC mode disabled with two L3 domains there will be subdirectories
+ "mon_L3_00" and "mon_L3_01". The numerical suffix refers to the
+ L3 cache id. With SNC enabled the directory names are the same,
+ but the numerical suffix refers to the node id. Each of these
directories have one file per event (e.g. "llc_occupancy",
"mbm_total_bytes", and "mbm_local_bytes"). In a MON group these
files provide a read out of the current value of the event for
--
2.40.1
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