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Message-ID: <56f3abef-439d-41e3-9ad6-44adca01eeb0@amd.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:09:30 -0500
From: "Moger, Babu" <babu.moger@....com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, corbet@....net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/25] x86/resctrl : Support AMD Assignable Bandwidth
 Monitoring Counters (ABMC)

Hi Reinette,

Thanks again for quick turn around for this series. Will start working on
v9.

On 10/15/24 22:05, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Babu,
> 
> On 10/9/24 10:39 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
>>
>> This series adds the support for Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters
>> (ABMC). It is also called QoS RMID Pinning feature
>>
>> Series is written such that it is easier to support other assignable
>> features supported from different vendors.
>>
>> The feature details are documented in the  APM listed below [1].
>> [1] AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming
>> Publication # 24593 Revision 3.41 section 19.3.3.3 Assignable Bandwidth
>> Monitoring (ABMC). The documentation is available at
>> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
>>
>> The patches are based on top of commit
>> 5b0c5f05fb2fe (tip/master) Merge branch into tip/master: 'x86/splitlock'
>>
>> # Introduction
>>
>> Users can create as many monitor groups as RMIDs supported by the hardware.
>> However, bandwidth monitoring feature on AMD system only guarantees that
>> RMIDs currently assigned to a processor will be tracked by hardware.
>> The counters of any other RMIDs which are no longer being tracked will be
>> reset to zero. The MBM event counters return "Unavailable" for the RMIDs
>> that are not tracked by hardware. So, there can be only limited number of
>> groups that can give guaranteed monitoring numbers. With ever changing
>> configurations there is no way to definitely know which of these groups
>> are being tracked for certain point of time. Users do not have the option
>> to monitor a group or set of groups for certain period of time without
>> worrying about RMID being reset in between.
> 
> "worrying about RMID being reset in between" -> "worrying about counter being
> reset in between"? 

Sure,

> 
>>     
>> The ABMC feature provides an option to the user to assign a hardware
>> counter to an RMID, event pair and monitor the bandwidth as long as it is
>> assigned.  The assigned RMID will be tracked by the hardware until the user
>> unassigns it manually. There is no need to worry about counters being reset
>> during this period. Additionally, the user can specify a bitmask identifying
>> the specific bandwidth types from the given source to track with the counter.
>>
>> Without ABMC enabled, monitoring will work in current 'default' mode without
>> assignment option.
>>
> 
> Reinette
> 

-- 
Thanks
Babu Moger

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