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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2023 14:44:18 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
"Peter Newman" <peternewman@...gle.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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CC: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for Sub-NUMA cluster (SNC) systems
Tony,
On 10/3/2023 2:30 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> The Sub-NUMA cluster feature on some Intel processors partitions
> the CPUs that share an L3 cache into two or more sets. This plays
> havoc with the Resource Director Technology (RDT) monitoring features.
> Prior to this patch Intel has advised that SNC and RDT are incompatible.
>
> Some of these CPU support an MSR that can partition the RMID
> counters in the same way. This allows for monitoring features
> to be used (with the caveat that memory accesses between different
> SNC NUMA nodes may still not be counted accurately.
Almost. For reference:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e350514e-76ed-14ea-3e74-c0852658182f@intel.com/
No need to send a new series just for this, but this series does find
itself at the back of my queue.
> Note that this patch series improves resctrl reporting considerably
> on systems with SNC enabled, but there will still be some anomalies
> for processes accessing memory from other sub-NUMA nodes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Reinette
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