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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f662d3c53 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1112 @@ +User Interface for Resource Allocation in Intel Resource Director Technology + +Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation + +Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> +Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> +Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com> + +This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_INTEL_RDT Kconfig and the +X86 /proc/cpuinfo flag bits: +RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation - "rdt_a" +CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) - "cat_l3", "cat_l2" +CDP (Code and Data Prioritization ) - "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2" +CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) - "cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc" +MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring) - "cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local" +MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) - "mba" + +To use the feature mount the file system: + + # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2][,mba_MBps]] /sys/fs/resctrl + +mount options are: + +"cdp": Enable code/data prioritization in L3 cache allocations. +"cdpl2": Enable code/data prioritization in L2 cache allocations. +"mba_MBps": Enable the MBA Software Controller(mba_sc) to specify MBA + bandwidth in MBps + +L2 and L3 CDP are controlled seperately. + +RDT features are orthogonal. A particular system may support only +monitoring, only control, or both monitoring and control. Cache +pseudo-locking is a unique way of using cache control to "pin" or +"lock" data in the cache. Details can be found in +"Cache Pseudo-Locking". + + +The mount succeeds if either of allocation or monitoring is present, but +only those files and directories supported by the system will be created. +For more details on the behavior of the interface during monitoring +and allocation, see the "Resource alloc and monitor groups" section. + +Info directory +-------------- + +The 'info' directory contains information about the enabled +resources. Each resource has its own subdirectory. The subdirectory +names reflect the resource names. + +Each subdirectory contains the following files with respect to +allocation: + +Cache resource(L3/L2) subdirectory contains the following files +related to allocation: + +"num_closids": The number of CLOSIDs which are valid for this + resource. The kernel uses the smallest number of + CLOSIDs of all enabled resources as limit. + +"cbm_mask": The bitmask which is valid for this resource. + This mask is equivalent to 100%. + +"min_cbm_bits": The minimum number of consecutive bits which + must be set when writing a mask. + +"shareable_bits": Bitmask of shareable resource with other executing + entities (e.g. I/O). User can use this when + setting up exclusive cache partitions. Note that + some platforms support devices that have their + own settings for cache use which can over-ride + these bits. +"bit_usage": Annotated capacity bitmasks showing how all + instances of the resource are used. The legend is: + "0" - Corresponding region is unused. When the system's + resources have been allocated and a "0" is found + in "bit_usage" it is a sign that resources are + wasted. + "H" - Corresponding region is used by hardware only + but available for software use. If a resource + has bits set in "shareable_bits" but not all + of these bits appear in the resource groups' + schematas then the bits appearing in + "shareable_bits" but no resource group will + be marked as "H". + "X" - Corresponding region is available for sharing and + used by hardware and software. These are the + bits that appear in "shareable_bits" as + well as a resource group's allocation. + "S" - Corresponding region is used by software + and available for sharing. + "E" - Corresponding region is used exclusively by + one resource group. No sharing allowed. + "P" - Corresponding region is pseudo-locked. No + sharing allowed. + +Memory bandwitdh(MB) subdirectory contains the following files +with respect to allocation: + +"min_bandwidth": The minimum memory bandwidth percentage which + user can request. + +"bandwidth_gran": The granularity in which the memory bandwidth + percentage is allocated. The allocated + b/w percentage is rounded off to the next + control step available on the hardware. The + available bandwidth control steps are: + min_bandwidth + N * bandwidth_gran. + +"delay_linear": Indicates if the delay scale is linear or + non-linear. This field is purely informational + only. + +If RDT monitoring is available there will be an "L3_MON" directory +with the following files: + +"num_rmids": The number of RMIDs available. This is the + upper bound for how many "CTRL_MON" + "MON" + groups can be created. + +"mon_features": Lists the monitoring events if + monitoring is enabled for the resource. + +"max_threshold_occupancy": + Read/write file provides the largest value (in + bytes) at which a previously used LLC_occupancy + counter can be considered for re-use. + +Finally, in the top level of the "info" directory there is a file +named "last_cmd_status". This is reset with every "command" issued +via the file system (making new directories or writing to any of the +control files). If the command was successful, it will read as "ok". +If the command failed, it will provide more information that can be +conveyed in the error returns from file operations. E.g. + + # echo L3:0=f7 > schemata + bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument + # cat info/last_cmd_status + mask f7 has non-consecutive 1-bits + +Resource alloc and monitor groups +--------------------------------- + +Resource groups are represented as directories in the resctrl file +system. The default group is the root directory which, immediately +after mounting, owns all the tasks and cpus in the system and can make +full use of all resources. + +On a system with RDT control features additional directories can be +created in the root directory that specify different amounts of each +resource (see "schemata" below). The root and these additional top level +directories are referred to as "CTRL_MON" groups below. + +On a system with RDT monitoring the root directory and other top level +directories contain a directory named "mon_groups" in which additional +directories can be created to monitor subsets of tasks in the CTRL_MON +group that is their ancestor. These are called "MON" groups in the rest +of this document. + +Removing a directory will move all tasks and cpus owned by the group it +represents to the parent. Removing one of the created CTRL_MON groups +will automatically remove all MON groups below it. + +All groups contain the following files: + +"tasks": + Reading this file shows the list of all tasks that belong to + this group. Writing a task id to the file will add a task to the + group. If the group is a CTRL_MON group the task is removed from + whichever previous CTRL_MON group owned the task and also from + any MON group that owned the task. If the group is a MON group, + then the task must already belong to the CTRL_MON parent of this + group. The task is removed from any previous MON group. + + +"cpus": + Reading this file shows a bitmask of the logical CPUs owned by + this group. Writing a mask to this file will add and remove + CPUs to/from this group. As with the tasks file a hierarchy is + maintained where MON groups may only include CPUs owned by the + parent CTRL_MON group. + When the resouce group is in pseudo-locked mode this file will + only be readable, reflecting the CPUs associated with the + pseudo-locked region. + + +"cpus_list": + Just like "cpus", only using ranges of CPUs instead of bitmasks. + + +When control is enabled all CTRL_MON groups will also contain: + +"schemata": + A list of all the resources available to this group. + Each resource has its own line and format - see below for details. + +"size": + Mirrors the display of the "schemata" file to display the size in + bytes of each allocation instead of the bits representing the + allocation. + +"mode": + The "mode" of the resource group dictates the sharing of its + allocations. A "shareable" resource group allows sharing of its + allocations while an "exclusive" resource group does not. A + cache pseudo-locked region is created by first writing + "pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file before writing the cache + pseudo-locked region's schemata to the resource group's "schemata" + file. On successful pseudo-locked region creation the mode will + automatically change to "pseudo-locked". + +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 + 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 + all tasks in the group. In CTRL_MON groups these files provide + the sum for all tasks in the CTRL_MON group and all tasks in + MON groups. Please see example section for more details on usage. + +Resource allocation rules +------------------------- +When a task is running the following rules define which resources are +available to it: + +1) If the task is a member of a non-default group, then the schemata + for that group is used. + +2) Else if the task belongs to the default group, but is running on a + CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the schemata for the + CPU's group is used. + +3) Otherwise the schemata for the default group is used. + +Resource monitoring rules +------------------------- +1) If a task is a member of a MON group, or non-default CTRL_MON group + then RDT events for the task will be reported in that group. + +2) If a task is a member of the default CTRL_MON group, but is running + on a CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the RDT events + for the task will be reported in that group. + +3) Otherwise RDT events for the task will be reported in the root level + "mon_data" group. + + +Notes on cache occupancy monitoring and control +----------------------------------------------- +When moving a task from one group to another you should remember that +this only affects *new* cache allocations by the task. E.g. you may have +a task in a monitor group showing 3 MB of cache occupancy. If you move +to a new group and immediately check the occupancy of the old and new +groups you will likely see that the old group is still showing 3 MB and +the new group zero. When the task accesses locations still in cache from +before the move, the h/w does not update any counters. On a busy system +you will likely see the occupancy in the old group go down as cache lines +are evicted and re-used while the occupancy in the new group rises as +the task accesses memory and loads into the cache are counted based on +membership in the new group. + +The same applies to cache allocation control. Moving a task to a group +with a smaller cache partition will not evict any cache lines. The +process may continue to use them from the old partition. + +Hardware uses CLOSid(Class of service ID) and an RMID(Resource monitoring ID) +to identify a control group and a monitoring group respectively. Each of +the resource groups are mapped to these IDs based on the kind of group. The +number of CLOSid and RMID are limited by the hardware and hence the creation of +a "CTRL_MON" directory may fail if we run out of either CLOSID or RMID +and creation of "MON" group may fail if we run out of RMIDs. + +max_threshold_occupancy - generic concepts +------------------------------------------ + +Note that an RMID once freed may not be immediately available for use as +the RMID is still tagged the cache lines of the previous user of RMID. +Hence such RMIDs are placed on limbo list and checked back if the cache +occupancy has gone down. If there is a time when system has a lot of +limbo RMIDs but which are not ready to be used, user may see an -EBUSY +during mkdir. + +max_threshold_occupancy is a user configurable value to determine the +occupancy at which an RMID can be freed. + +Schemata files - general concepts +--------------------------------- +Each line in the file describes one resource. The line starts with +the name of the resource, followed by specific values to be applied +in each of the instances of that resource on the system. + +Cache IDs +--------- +On current generation systems there is one L3 cache per socket and L2 +caches are generally just shared by the hyperthreads on a core, but this +isn't an architectural requirement. We could have multiple separate L3 +caches on a socket, multiple cores could share an L2 cache. So instead +of using "socket" or "core" to define the set of logical cpus sharing +a resource we use a "Cache ID". At a given cache level this will be a +unique number across the whole system (but it isn't guaranteed to be a +contiguous sequence, there may be gaps). To find the ID for each logical +CPU look in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/id + +Cache Bit Masks (CBM) +--------------------- +For cache resources we describe the portion of the cache that is available +for allocation using a bitmask. The maximum value of the mask is defined +by each cpu model (and may be different for different cache levels). It +is found using CPUID, but is also provided in the "info" directory of +the resctrl file system in "info/{resource}/cbm_mask". X86 hardware +requires that these masks have all the '1' bits in a contiguous block. So +0x3, 0x6 and 0xC are legal 4-bit masks with two bits set, but 0x5, 0x9 +and 0xA are not. On a system with a 20-bit mask each bit represents 5% +of the capacity of the cache. You could partition the cache into four +equal parts with masks: 0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00, 0xf8000. + +Memory bandwidth Allocation and monitoring +------------------------------------------ + +For Memory bandwidth resource, by default the user controls the resource +by indicating the percentage of total memory bandwidth. + +The minimum bandwidth percentage value for each cpu model is predefined +and can be looked up through "info/MB/min_bandwidth". The bandwidth +granularity that is allocated is also dependent on the cpu model and can +be looked up at "info/MB/bandwidth_gran". The available bandwidth +control steps are: min_bw + N * bw_gran. Intermediate values are rounded +to the next control step available on the hardware. + +The bandwidth throttling is a core specific mechanism on some of Intel +SKUs. Using a high bandwidth and a low bandwidth setting on two threads +sharing a core will result in both threads being throttled to use the +low bandwidth. The fact that Memory bandwidth allocation(MBA) is a core +specific mechanism where as memory bandwidth monitoring(MBM) is done at +the package level may lead to confusion when users try to apply control +via the MBA and then monitor the bandwidth to see if the controls are +effective. Below are such scenarios: + +1. User may *not* see increase in actual bandwidth when percentage + values are increased: + +This can occur when aggregate L2 external bandwidth is more than L3 +external bandwidth. Consider an SKL SKU with 24 cores on a package and +where L2 external is 10GBps (hence aggregate L2 external bandwidth is +240GBps) and L3 external bandwidth is 100GBps. Now a workload with '20 +threads, having 50% bandwidth, each consuming 5GBps' consumes the max L3 +bandwidth of 100GBps although the percentage value specified is only 50% +<< 100%. Hence increasing the bandwidth percentage will not yeild any +more bandwidth. This is because although the L2 external bandwidth still +has capacity, the L3 external bandwidth is fully used. Also note that +this would be dependent on number of cores the benchmark is run on. + +2. Same bandwidth percentage may mean different actual bandwidth + depending on # of threads: + +For the same SKU in #1, a 'single thread, with 10% bandwidth' and '4 +thread, with 10% bandwidth' can consume upto 10GBps and 40GBps although +they have same percentage bandwidth of 10%. This is simply because as +threads start using more cores in an rdtgroup, the actual bandwidth may +increase or vary although user specified bandwidth percentage is same. + +In order to mitigate this and make the interface more user friendly, +resctrl added support for specifying the bandwidth in MBps as well. The +kernel underneath would use a software feedback mechanism or a "Software +Controller(mba_sc)" which reads the actual bandwidth using MBM counters +and adjust the memowy bandwidth percentages to ensure + + "actual bandwidth < user specified bandwidth". + +By default, the schemata would take the bandwidth percentage values +where as user can switch to the "MBA software controller" mode using +a mount option 'mba_MBps'. The schemata format is specified in the below +sections. + +L3 schemata file details (code and data prioritization disabled) +---------------------------------------------------------------- +With CDP disabled the L3 schemata format is: + + L3:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;... + +L3 schemata file details (CDP enabled via mount option to resctrl) +------------------------------------------------------------------ +When CDP is enabled L3 control is split into two separate resources +so you can specify independent masks for code and data like this: + + L3data:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;... + L3code:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;... + +L2 schemata file details +------------------------ +L2 cache does not support code and data prioritization, so the +schemata format is always: + + L2:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;... + +Memory bandwidth Allocation (default mode) +------------------------------------------ + +Memory b/w domain is L3 cache. + + MB:<cache_id0>=bandwidth0;<cache_id1>=bandwidth1;... + +Memory bandwidth Allocation specified in MBps +--------------------------------------------- + +Memory bandwidth domain is L3 cache. + + MB:<cache_id0>=bw_MBps0;<cache_id1>=bw_MBps1;... + +Reading/writing the schemata file +--------------------------------- +Reading the schemata file will show the state of all resources +on all domains. When writing you only need to specify those values +which you wish to change. E.g. + +# cat schemata +L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff +L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff +# echo "L3DATA:2=3c0;" > schemata +# cat schemata +L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=3c0;3=fffff +L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff + +Cache Pseudo-Locking +-------------------- +CAT enables a user to specify the amount of cache space that an +application can fill. Cache pseudo-locking builds on the fact that a +CPU can still read and write data pre-allocated outside its current +allocated area on a cache hit. With cache pseudo-locking, data can be +preloaded into a reserved portion of cache that no application can +fill, and from that point on will only serve cache hits. The cache +pseudo-locked memory is made accessible to user space where an +application can map it into its virtual address space and thus have +a region of memory with reduced average read latency. + +The creation of a cache pseudo-locked region is triggered by a request +from the user to do so that is accompanied by a schemata of the region +to be pseudo-locked. The cache pseudo-locked region is created as follows: +- Create a CAT allocation CLOSNEW with a CBM matching the schemata + from the user of the cache region that will contain the pseudo-locked + memory. This region must not overlap with any current CAT allocation/CLOS + on the system and no future overlap with this cache region is allowed + while the pseudo-locked region exists. +- Create a contiguous region of memory of the same size as the cache + region. +- Flush the cache, disable hardware prefetchers, disable preemption. +- Make CLOSNEW the active CLOS and touch the allocated memory to load + it into the cache. +- Set the previous CLOS as active. +- At this point the closid CLOSNEW can be released - the cache + pseudo-locked region is protected as long as its CBM does not appear in + any CAT allocation. Even though the cache pseudo-locked region will from + this point on not appear in any CBM of any CLOS an application running with + any CLOS will be able to access the memory in the pseudo-locked region since + the region continues to serve cache hits. +- The contiguous region of memory loaded into the cache is exposed to + user-space as a character device. + +Cache pseudo-locking increases the probability that data will remain +in the cache via carefully configuring the CAT feature and controlling +application behavior. There is no guarantee that data is placed in +cache. Instructions like INVD, WBINVD, CLFLUSH, etc. can still evict +“locked” data from cache. Power management C-states may shrink or +power off cache. Deeper C-states will automatically be restricted on +pseudo-locked region creation. + +It is required that an application using a pseudo-locked region runs +with affinity to the cores (or a subset of the cores) associated +with the cache on which the pseudo-locked region resides. A sanity check +within the code will not allow an application to map pseudo-locked memory +unless it runs with affinity to cores associated with the cache on which the +pseudo-locked region resides. The sanity check is only done during the +initial mmap() handling, there is no enforcement afterwards and the +application self needs to ensure it remains affine to the correct cores. + +Pseudo-locking is accomplished in two stages: +1) During the first stage the system administrator allocates a portion + of cache that should be dedicated to pseudo-locking. At this time an + equivalent portion of memory is allocated, loaded into allocated + cache portion, and exposed as a character device. +2) During the second stage a user-space application maps (mmap()) the + pseudo-locked memory into its address space. + +Cache Pseudo-Locking Interface +------------------------------ +A pseudo-locked region is created using the resctrl interface as follows: + +1) Create a new resource group by creating a new directory in /sys/fs/resctrl. +2) Change the new resource group's mode to "pseudo-locksetup" by writing + "pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file. +3) Write the schemata of the pseudo-locked region to the "schemata" file. All + bits within the schemata should be "unused" according to the "bit_usage" + file. + +On successful pseudo-locked region creation the "mode" file will contain +"pseudo-locked" and a new character device with the same name as the resource +group will exist in /dev/pseudo_lock. This character device can be mmap()'ed +by user space in order to obtain access to the pseudo-locked memory region. + +An example of cache pseudo-locked region creation and usage can be found below. + +Cache Pseudo-Locking Debugging Interface +--------------------------------------- +The pseudo-locking debugging interface is enabled by default (if +CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled) and can be found in /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl. + +There is no explicit way for the kernel to test if a provided memory +location is present in the cache. The pseudo-locking debugging interface uses +the tracing infrastructure to provide two ways to measure cache residency of +the pseudo-locked region: +1) Memory access latency using the pseudo_lock_mem_latency tracepoint. Data + from these measurements are best visualized using a hist trigger (see + example below). In this test the pseudo-locked region is traversed at + a stride of 32 bytes while hardware prefetchers and preemption + are disabled. This also provides a substitute visualization of cache + hits and misses. +2) Cache hit and miss measurements using model specific precision counters if + available. Depending on the levels of cache on the system the pseudo_lock_l2 + and pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoints are available. + WARNING: triggering this measurement uses from two (for just L2 + measurements) to four (for L2 and L3 measurements) precision counters on + the system, if any other measurements are in progress the counters and + their corresponding event registers will be clobbered. + +When a pseudo-locked region is created a new debugfs directory is created for +it in debugfs as /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/<newdir>. A single +write-only file, pseudo_lock_measure, is present in this directory. The +measurement on the pseudo-locked region depends on the number, 1 or 2, +written to this debugfs file. Since the measurements are recorded with the +tracing infrastructure the relevant tracepoints need to be enabled before the +measurement is triggered. + +Example of latency debugging interface: +In this example a pseudo-locked region named "newlock" was created. Here is +how we can measure the latency in cycles of reading from this region and +visualize this data with a histogram that is available if CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS +is set: +# :> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace +# echo 'hist:keys=latency' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/trigger +# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable +# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/newlock/pseudo_lock_measure +# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable +# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/hist + +# event histogram +# +# trigger info: hist:keys=latency:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] +# + +{ latency: 456 } hitcount: 1 +{ latency: 50 } hitcount: 83 +{ latency: 36 } hitcount: 96 +{ latency: 44 } hitcount: 174 +{ latency: 48 } hitcount: 195 +{ latency: 46 } hitcount: 262 +{ latency: 42 } hitcount: 693 +{ latency: 40 } hitcount: 3204 +{ latency: 38 } hitcount: 3484 + +Totals: + Hits: 8192 + Entries: 9 + Dropped: 0 + +Example of cache hits/misses debugging: +In this example a pseudo-locked region named "newlock" was created on the L2 +cache of a platform. Here is how we can obtain details of the cache hits +and misses using the platform's precision counters. + +# :> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace +# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable +# echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/newlock/pseudo_lock_measure +# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable +# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace + +# tracer: nop +# +# _-----=> irqs-off +# / _----=> need-resched +# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# || / _--=> preempt-depth +# ||| / delay +# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | |||| | | + pseudo_lock_mea-1672 [002] .... 3132.860500: pseudo_lock_l2: hits=4097 miss=0 + + +Examples for RDT allocation usage: + +Example 1 +--------- +On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits +for cache bit masks, minimum b/w of 10% with a memory bandwidth +granularity of 10% + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl +# mkdir p0 p1 +# echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata +# echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata + +The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts +of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f"). + +Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the +"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1. +Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets. + +Similarly, tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may use a +maximum memory b/w of 50% on socket0 and 50% on socket 1. +Tasks in group "p1" may also use 50% memory b/w on both sockets. +Note that unlike cache masks, memory b/w cannot specify whether these +allocations can overlap or not. The allocations specifies the maximum +b/w that the group may be able to use and the system admin can configure +the b/w accordingly. + +If the MBA is specified in MB(megabytes) then user can enter the max b/w in MB +rather than the percentage values. + +# echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata +# echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata + +In the above example the tasks in "p1" and "p0" on socket 0 would use a max b/w +of 1024MB where as on socket 1 they would use 500MB. + +Example 2 +--------- +Again two sockets, but this time with a more realistic 20-bit mask. + +Two real time tasks pid=1234 running on processor 0 and pid=5678 running on +processor 1 on socket 0 on a 2-socket and dual core machine. To avoid noisy +neighbors, each of the two real-time tasks exclusively occupies one quarter +of L3 cache on socket 0. + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl + +First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper" +50% of the L3 cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory b/w cannot be used by +ordinary tasks: + +# echo "L3:0=3ff;1=fffff\nMB:0=50;1=100" > schemata + +Next we make a resource group for our first real time task and give +it access to the "top" 25% of the cache on socket 0. + +# mkdir p0 +# echo "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff" > p0/schemata + +Finally we move our first real time task into this resource group. We +also use taskset(1) to ensure the task always runs on a dedicated CPU +on socket 0. Most uses of resource groups will also constrain which +processors tasks run on. + +# echo 1234 > p0/tasks +# taskset -cp 1 1234 + +Ditto for the second real time task (with the remaining 25% of cache): + +# mkdir p1 +# echo "L3:0=7c00;1=fffff" > p1/schemata +# echo 5678 > p1/tasks +# taskset -cp 2 5678 + +For the same 2 socket system with memory b/w resource and CAT L3 the +schemata would look like(Assume min_bandwidth 10 and bandwidth_gran is +10): + +For our first real time task this would request 20% memory b/w on socket +0. + +# echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata + +For our second real time task this would request an other 20% memory b/w +on socket 0. + +# echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata + +Example 3 +--------- + +A single socket system which has real-time tasks running on core 4-7 and +non real-time workload assigned to core 0-3. The real-time tasks share text +and data, so a per task association is not required and due to interaction +with the kernel it's desired that the kernel on these cores shares L3 with +the tasks. + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl + +First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper" +50% of the L3 cache on socket 0, and 50% of memory bandwidth on socket 0 +cannot be used by ordinary tasks: + +# echo "L3:0=3ff\nMB:0=50" > schemata + +Next we make a resource group for our real time cores and give it access +to the "top" 50% of the cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory bandwidth on +socket 0. + +# mkdir p0 +# echo "L3:0=ffc00\nMB:0=50" > p0/schemata + +Finally we move core 4-7 over to the new group and make sure that the +kernel and the tasks running there get 50% of the cache. They should +also get 50% of memory bandwidth assuming that the cores 4-7 are SMT +siblings and only the real time threads are scheduled on the cores 4-7. + +# echo F0 > p0/cpus + +Example 4 +--------- + +The resource groups in previous examples were all in the default "shareable" +mode allowing sharing of their cache allocations. If one resource group +configures a cache allocation then nothing prevents another resource group +to overlap with that allocation. + +In this example a new exclusive resource group will be created on a L2 CAT +system with two L2 cache instances that can be configured with an 8-bit +capacity bitmask. The new exclusive resource group will be configured to use +25% of each cache instance. + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl/ +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl + +First, we observe that the default group is configured to allocate to all L2 +cache: + +# cat schemata +L2:0=ff;1=ff + +We could attempt to create the new resource group at this point, but it will +fail because of the overlap with the schemata of the default group: +# mkdir p0 +# echo 'L2:0=0x3;1=0x3' > p0/schemata +# cat p0/mode +shareable +# echo exclusive > p0/mode +-sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument +# cat info/last_cmd_status +schemata overlaps + +To ensure that there is no overlap with another resource group the default +resource group's schemata has to change, making it possible for the new +resource group to become exclusive. +# echo 'L2:0=0xfc;1=0xfc' > schemata +# echo exclusive > p0/mode +# grep . p0/* +p0/cpus:0 +p0/mode:exclusive +p0/schemata:L2:0=03;1=03 +p0/size:L2:0=262144;1=262144 + +A new resource group will on creation not overlap with an exclusive resource +group: +# mkdir p1 +# grep . p1/* +p1/cpus:0 +p1/mode:shareable +p1/schemata:L2:0=fc;1=fc +p1/size:L2:0=786432;1=786432 + +The bit_usage will reflect how the cache is used: +# cat info/L2/bit_usage +0=SSSSSSEE;1=SSSSSSEE + +A resource group cannot be forced to overlap with an exclusive resource group: +# echo 'L2:0=0x1;1=0x1' > p1/schemata +-sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument +# cat info/last_cmd_status +overlaps with exclusive group + +Example of Cache Pseudo-Locking +------------------------------- +Lock portion of L2 cache from cache id 1 using CBM 0x3. Pseudo-locked +region is exposed at /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock that can be provided to +application for argument to mmap(). + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl/ +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl + +Ensure that there are bits available that can be pseudo-locked, since only +unused bits can be pseudo-locked the bits to be pseudo-locked needs to be +removed from the default resource group's schemata: +# cat info/L2/bit_usage +0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSSS +# echo 'L2:1=0xfc' > schemata +# cat info/L2/bit_usage +0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSS00 + +Create a new resource group that will be associated with the pseudo-locked +region, indicate that it will be used for a pseudo-locked region, and +configure the requested pseudo-locked region capacity bitmask: + +# mkdir newlock +# echo pseudo-locksetup > newlock/mode +# echo 'L2:1=0x3' > newlock/schemata + +On success the resource group's mode will change to pseudo-locked, the +bit_usage will reflect the pseudo-locked region, and the character device +exposing the pseudo-locked region will exist: + +# cat newlock/mode +pseudo-locked +# cat info/L2/bit_usage +0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSPP +# ls -l /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock +crw------- 1 root root 243, 0 Apr 3 05:01 /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock + +/* + * Example code to access one page of pseudo-locked cache region + * from user space. + */ +#define _GNU_SOURCE +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <sched.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/mman.h> + +/* + * It is required that the application runs with affinity to only + * cores associated with the pseudo-locked region. Here the cpu + * is hardcoded for convenience of example. + */ +static int cpuid = 2; + +int main(int argc, char *argv[]) +{ + cpu_set_t cpuset; + long page_size; + void *mapping; + int dev_fd; + int ret; + + page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); + + CPU_ZERO(&cpuset); + CPU_SET(cpuid, &cpuset); + ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset); + if (ret < 0) { + perror("sched_setaffinity"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + dev_fd = open("/dev/pseudo_lock/newlock", O_RDWR); + if (dev_fd < 0) { + perror("open"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + mapping = mmap(0, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, + dev_fd, 0); + if (mapping == MAP_FAILED) { + perror("mmap"); + close(dev_fd); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + /* Application interacts with pseudo-locked memory @mapping */ + + ret = munmap(mapping, page_size); + if (ret < 0) { + perror("munmap"); + close(dev_fd); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + close(dev_fd); + exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); +} + +Locking between applications +---------------------------- + +Certain operations on the resctrl filesystem, composed of read/writes +to/from multiple files, must be atomic. + +As an example, the allocation of an exclusive reservation of L3 cache +involves: + + 1. Read the cbmmasks from each directory or the per-resource "bit_usage" + 2. Find a contiguous set of bits in the global CBM bitmask that is clear + in any of the directory cbmmasks + 3. Create a new directory + 4. Set the bits found in step 2 to the new directory "schemata" file + +If two applications attempt to allocate space concurrently then they can +end up allocating the same bits so the reservations are shared instead of +exclusive. + +To coordinate atomic operations on the resctrlfs and to avoid the problem +above, the following locking procedure is recommended: + +Locking is based on flock, which is available in libc and also as a shell +script command + +Write lock: + + A) Take flock(LOCK_EX) on /sys/fs/resctrl + B) Read/write the directory structure. + C) funlock + +Read lock: + + A) Take flock(LOCK_SH) on /sys/fs/resctrl + B) If success read the directory structure. + C) funlock + +Example with bash: + +# Atomically read directory structure +$ flock -s /sys/fs/resctrl/ find /sys/fs/resctrl + +# Read directory contents and create new subdirectory + +$ cat create-dir.sh +find /sys/fs/resctrl/ > output.txt +mask = function-of(output.txt) +mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/ +echo mask > /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/schemata + +$ flock /sys/fs/resctrl/ ./create-dir.sh + +Example with C: + +/* + * Example code do take advisory locks + * before accessing resctrl filesystem + */ +#include <sys/file.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +void resctrl_take_shared_lock(int fd) +{ + int ret; + + /* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */ + ret = flock(fd, LOCK_SH); + if (ret) { + perror("flock"); + exit(-1); + } +} + +void resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(int fd) +{ + int ret; + + /* release lock on resctrl filesystem */ + ret = flock(fd, LOCK_EX); + if (ret) { + perror("flock"); + exit(-1); + } +} + +void resctrl_release_lock(int fd) +{ + int ret; + + /* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */ + ret = flock(fd, LOCK_UN); + if (ret) { + perror("flock"); + exit(-1); + } +} + +void main(void) +{ + int fd, ret; + + fd = open("/sys/fs/resctrl", O_DIRECTORY); + if (fd == -1) { + perror("open"); + exit(-1); + } + resctrl_take_shared_lock(fd); + /* code to read directory contents */ + resctrl_release_lock(fd); + + resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(fd); + /* code to read and write directory contents */ + resctrl_release_lock(fd); +} + +Examples for RDT Monitoring along with allocation usage: + +Reading monitored data +---------------------- +Reading an event file (for ex: mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy) would +show the current snapshot of LLC occupancy of the corresponding MON +group or CTRL_MON group. + + +Example 1 (Monitor CTRL_MON group and subset of tasks in CTRL_MON group) +--------- +On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits +for cache bit masks + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl +# mkdir p0 p1 +# echo "L3:0=3;1=c" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata +# echo "L3:0=3;1=3" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata +# echo 5678 > p1/tasks +# echo 5679 > p1/tasks + +The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts +of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f"). + +Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the +"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1. +Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets. + +Create monitor groups and assign a subset of tasks to each monitor group. + +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_groups +# mkdir m11 m12 +# echo 5678 > m11/tasks +# echo 5679 > m12/tasks + +fetch data (data shown in bytes) + +# cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy +16234000 +# cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy +14789000 +# cat m12/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy +16789000 + +The parent ctrl_mon group shows the aggregated data. + +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_l3_00/llc_occupancy +31234000 + +Example 2 (Monitor a task from its creation) +--------- +On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl +# mkdir p0 p1 + +An RMID is allocated to the group once its created and hence the <cmd> +below is monitored from its creation. + +# echo $$ > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/tasks +# <cmd> + +Fetch the data + +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_l3_00/llc_occupancy +31789000 + +Example 3 (Monitor without CAT support or before creating CAT groups) +--------- + +Assume a system like HSW has only CQM and no CAT support. In this case +the resctrl will still mount but cannot create CTRL_MON directories. +But user can create different MON groups within the root group thereby +able to monitor all tasks including kernel threads. + +This can also be used to profile jobs cache size footprint before being +able to allocate them to different allocation groups. + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl +# mkdir mon_groups/m01 +# mkdir mon_groups/m02 + +# echo 3478 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/tasks +# echo 2467 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/tasks + +Monitor the groups separately and also get per domain data. From the +below its apparent that the tasks are mostly doing work on +domain(socket) 0. + +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy +31234000 +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy +34555 +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy +31234000 +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy +32789 + + +Example 4 (Monitor real time tasks) +----------------------------------- + +A single socket system which has real time tasks running on cores 4-7 +and non real time tasks on other cpus. We want to monitor the cache +occupancy of the real time threads on these cores. + +# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl +# cd /sys/fs/resctrl +# mkdir p1 + +Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1 +# echo f0 > p1/cpus + +View the llc occupancy snapshot + +# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy +11234000 |