Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:25:19 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] selftests/resctrl: SNC kernel support discovery | | From | Shuah Khan <> |
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On 1/14/25 15:30, Reinette Chatre wrote: > Hi Shuah, > > On 12/19/24 10:35 AM, Reinette Chatre wrote: >> Hi Shuah, >> >> On 12/16/24 7:18 AM, Maciej Wieczor-Retman wrote: >>> >>> Sub-Numa Clustering (SNC) allows splitting CPU cores, caches and memory >>> into multiple NUMA nodes. When enabled, NUMA-aware applications can >>> achieve better performance on bigger server platforms. >>> >>> SNC support was merged into the kernel [1]. With SNC enabled >>> and kernel support in place all the tests will function normally (aside >>> from effective cache size). There might be a problem when SNC is enabled >>> but the system is still using an older kernel version without SNC >>> support. Currently the only message displayed in that situation is a >>> guess that SNC might be enabled and is causing issues. That message also >>> is displayed whenever the test fails on an Intel platform. >>> >>> Add a mechanism to discover kernel support for SNC which will add more >>> meaning and certainty to the error message. >>> >>> Add runtime SNC mode detection and verify how reliable that information >>> is. >>> >>> Series was tested on Ice Lake server platforms with SNC disabled, SNC-2 >>> and SNC-4. The tests were also ran with and without kernel support for >>> SNC. >>> >>> Series applies cleanly on kselftest/next. >>> >> >> Could you please consider this series for inclusion? >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> Reinette >> > > (bumping visibility of request made close to holidays) > > This series still applies cleanly to kselftest/next. Could you please > consider it for inclusion? > > Thank you very much. > > Reinette >
Thank you for bumping it up to top of my Inbox. I will apply these for 6.14-rc1 now.
thanks, -- Shuah
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