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Message-ID: <6c540c6d-680d-4a22-bec9-e4184bff051f@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:43:15 -0800
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>,
	<fenghua.yu@...el.com>, <shuah@...nel.org>
CC: <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>, <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] selftests/resctrl: Adjust effective L3 cache size
 with SNC enabled

Hi Maciej,

On 12/16/24 7:18 AM, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote:
> Sub-NUMA Cluster divides CPUs sharing an L3 cache into separate NUMA
> nodes. Systems may support splitting into either two, three, four or six
> nodes. When SNC mode is enabled the effective amount of L3 cache
> available for allocation is divided by the number of nodes per L3.
> 
> It's possible to detect which SNC mode is active by comparing the number
> of CPUs that share a cache with CPU0, with the number of CPUs on node0.
> 
> Detect SNC mode once and let other tests inherit that information.
> 
> Update CFLAGS after including lib.mk in the Makefile so that fallthrough
> macro can be used.
> 
> To check if SNC detection is reliable one can check the
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline file. If it's empty, it means all cores
> are operational and the ratio should be calculated correctly. If it has
> any contents, it means the detected SNC mode can't be trusted and should
> be disabled.
> 
> Check if detection was not reliable due to offline cpus. If it was skip
> running tests since the results couldn't be trusted.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>
> ---

Thank you very much.

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>

Reinette



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