[v4,0/2] selftests/resctrl: SNC kernel support discovery

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Maciej Wieczor-Retman July 12, 2024, 9:03 a.m. UTC

Changes v4:
- Printing SNC warnings at the start of every test.
- Printing SNC warnings at the end of every relevant test.
- Remove global snc_mode variable, consolidate snc detection functions
  into one.
- Correct minor mistakes.

Changes v3:
- Reworked patch 2.
- Changed minor things in patch 1 like function name and made
  corrections to the patch message.

Changes v2:
- Removed patches 2 and 3 since now this part will be supported by the
  kernel.

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 in the kernel was merged into x86/cache [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.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/

Previous versions of this series:
[v1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/
[v2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/
[v3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/

Maciej Wieczor-Retman (2):
  selftests/resctrl: Adjust effective L3 cache size with SNC enabled
  selftests/resctrl: Adjust SNC support messages

 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c    |   8 ++
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c    |  10 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c    |   7 +
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c    |   9 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h     |   7 +
 .../testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c |   8 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c   | 130 ++++++++++++++++++
 7 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)