Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Tony Luck <> | | Subject | [PATCH v14 32/32] x86,fs/resctrl: Update documentation for telemetry events | | Date | Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:54:09 -0800 |
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Update resctrl filesystem documentation with the details about the resctrl files that support telemetry events.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> --- Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst index 8c8ce678148a..138d2663b03d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst @@ -252,13 +252,12 @@ with respect to allocation: bandwidth percentages are directly applied to the threads running on the core -If RDT monitoring is available there will be an "L3_MON" directory +If L3 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. + The number of RMIDs supported by hardware for + L3 monitoring events. "mon_features": Lists the monitoring events if @@ -484,6 +483,25 @@ with the following files: bytes) at which a previously used LLC_occupancy counter can be considered for re-use. +If telemetry monitoring is available there will be a "PERF_PKG_MON" directory +with the following files: + +"num_rmids": + The number of RMIDs for telemetry monitoring events. By default, + resctrl will not enable telemetry events of a particular type + ("perf" or "energy") if the number of RMIDs that can be tracked + concurrently for that type is lower than the total number of + RMIDs supported by that type. The user can force-enable each + type of telemetry events with the "rdt=" boot command line + option, but this may reduce the number of monitoring groups that + can be created. + +"mon_features": + Lists the telemetry monitoring events that are enabled on this system. + +The upper bound for how many "CTRL_MON" + "MON" can be created +is the smaller of the L3_MON and PERF_PKG_MON "num_rmids" values. + 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 @@ -589,15 +607,40 @@ When control is enabled all CTRL_MON groups will also contain: 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 + This contains directories for each monitor domain. + + If L3 monitoring is enabled, there will be a "mon_L3_XX" directory for + each instance of an L3 cache. Each directory contains files for the enabled + L3 events (e.g. "llc_occupancy", "mbm_total_bytes", and "mbm_local_bytes"). + + If telemetry monitoring is enabled, there will be a "mon_PERF_PKG_YY" + directory for each physical processor package. Each directory contains + files for the enabled telemetry events (e.g. "core_energy". "activity", + "uops_retired", etc.) + + The info/`*`/mon_features files provide the full list of enabled + event/file names. + + "core energy" reports a floating point number for the energy (in Joules) + consumed by cores (registers, arithmetic units, TLB and L1/L2 caches) + during execution of instructions summed across all logical CPUs on a + package for the current monitoring group. + + "activity" also reports a floating point value (in Farads). This provides + an estimate of work done independent of the frequency that the CPUs used + for execution. + + Note that "core energy" and "activity" only measure energy/activity in the + "core" of the CPU (arithmetic units, TLB, L1 and L2 caches, etc.). They + do not include L3 cache, memory, I/O devices etc. + + All other events report decimal integer values. + + 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. + On systems with Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) enabled there are extra directories for each node (located within the "mon_L3_XX" directory for the L3 cache they occupy). These are named "mon_sub_L3_YY" @@ -1590,6 +1633,41 @@ Example with C:: resctrl_release_lock(fd); } +Debugfs +======= +In addition to the use of debugfs for tracing of pseudo-locking performance, +architecture code may create debugfs directories associated with monitoring +features for a specific resource. + +The full pathname for these is in the form: + + /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/info/{resource_name}_MON/{arch}/ + +The presence, names, and format of these files may vary between architectures +even if the same resource is present. + +PERF_PKG_MON/x86_64 +------------------- +Three files are present per telemetry aggregator instance that show status. +The prefix of each file name describes the type ("energy" or "perf"), the +guid, which processor package it belongs to, and the instance number of the +aggregator. For example: "energy_0x26696143_pkg1_agg2". + +The suffix describes which data is reported in the file and is one of: + +data_loss_count: + This counts the number of times that this aggregator + failed to accumulate a counter value supplied by a CPU. + +data_loss_timestamp: + This is a "timestamp" from a free running 25MHz uncore + timer indicating when the most recent data loss occurred. + +last_update_timestamp: + Another 25MHz timestamp indicating when the + most recent counter update was successfully applied. + + Examples for RDT Monitoring along with allocation usage ======================================================= Reading monitored data -- 2.51.1
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