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Message-ID: <20241029172832.93963-8-tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:28:32 -0700
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
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Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 7/7] x86/resctrl: Document the new "mba_MBps_event" file
New read/write file to show/set the memory bandwidth event used
to control bandwidth used by each ctrl_mon group.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
---
Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
index a824affd741d..d86081e76bbf 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst
@@ -384,6 +384,16 @@ When monitoring is enabled all MON groups will also contain:
Available only with debug option. The identifier used by hardware
for the monitor group. On x86 this is the RMID.
+When the "mba_MBps" mount option is used all CTRL_MON groups will also contain:
+
+"mba_MBps_event":
+ Reading this file shows which memory bandwidth event is used
+ as input to a software feedback loop to keep memory bandwidth
+ below the value specified in the schemata file. Writing the
+ name of one of the supported memory bandwidth events found in
+ /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/monfeatures will change the input
+ event.
+
Resource allocation rules
-------------------------
--
2.47.0
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