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SubjectRe: [PATCH v12 00/13] x86/resctrl: Support for AMD QoS new features
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On 1/17/23 16:16, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Babu,
>
> On 1/13/2023 7:20 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
>> New AMD processors can now support following QoS features.
>>
>> 1. Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation (SMBA)
>> With this feature, the QOS enforcement policies can be applied
>> to the external slow memory connected to the host. QOS enforcement
>> is accomplished by assigning a Class Of Service (COS) to a processor
>> and specifying allocations or limits for that COS for each resource
>> to be allocated.
>>
>> Currently, CXL.memory is the only supported "slow" memory device. With
>> the support of SMBA feature the hardware enables bandwidth allocation
>> on the slow memory devices.
>>
>> 2. Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration (BMEC)
>> The bandwidth monitoring events mbm_total_event and mbm_local_event
>> are set to count all the total and local reads/writes respectively.
>> With the introduction of slow memory, the two counters are not enough
>> to count all the different types are memory events. With the feature
>> BMEC, the users have the option to configure mbm_total_event and
>> mbm_local_event to count the specific type of events.
>>
>> Following are the bitmaps of events supported.
>> Bits Description
>> 6 Dirty Victims from the QOS domain to all types of memory
>> 5 Reads to slow memory in the non-local NUMA domain
>> 4 Reads to slow memory in the local NUMA domain
>> 3 Non-temporal writes to non-local NUMA domain
>> 2 Non-temporal writes to local NUMA domain
>> 1 Reads to memory in the non-local NUMA domain
>> 0 Reads to memory in the local NUMA domain
>>
>> This series adds support for these features. Also added a minor cleanup(PATCH 1).
>>
>> Feature description is available in the specification, "AMD64 Technology Platform Quality of Service Extensions, Revision: 1.03 Publication # 56375
>> Revision: 1.03 Issue Date: February 2022".
>>
>> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
>> Link: https://www.amd.com/en/support/tech-docs/amd64-technology-platform-quality-service-extensions
> This series looks good to me. I added my "Reviewed-by" tag to patch 13/13. All
> the other patches in this series already have my "Reviewed-by" tag.

Thank you very much.
Babu Moger

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