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[v4,2/2] selftests/resctrl: Print a message if the result of MBM&CMT tests is failed on Intel cpu

Message ID 20220316055940.292550-3-tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit d577380da04e410a31e7f944b04d838ab1c8a1c3
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Series selftests/resctrl: Print a message if the result of MBM&CMT tests is failed on Intel cpu | expand

Commit Message

Shaopeng Tan March 16, 2022, 5:59 a.m. UTC
According to "Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) on
2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Reference Manual",
When the Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering(SNC) feature is enabled,
Intel CMT and MBM counters may not be accurate.

However, there does not seem to be an architectural way to detect
if SNC is enabled.

If the result of MBM&CMT test fails on Intel CPU,
print a message to let users know a possible cause of failure.

Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Reinette Chatre March 18, 2022, 8:11 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Shaopeng Tan, 

Please use capitalization for CPU (in subject).

On 3/15/2022 10:59 PM, Shaopeng Tan wrote:
> According to "Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) on
> 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Reference Manual",
> When the Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering(SNC) feature is enabled,
> Intel CMT and MBM counters may not be accurate.
> 
> However, there does not seem to be an architectural way to detect
> if SNC is enabled.
> 
> If the result of MBM&CMT test fails on Intel CPU,
> print a message to let users know a possible cause of failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
> index dc548d3e2454..97ad6cfee6ee 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
> @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ static void run_mbm_test(bool has_ben, char **benchmark_cmd, int span,
>  		sprintf(benchmark_cmd[5], "%s", MBA_STR);
>  	res = mbm_bw_change(span, cpu_no, bw_report, benchmark_cmd);
>  	ksft_test_result(!res, "MBM: bw change\n");
> +	if ((get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL) && res)
> +		ksft_print_msg("Intel MBM may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n");
>  	mbm_test_cleanup();
>  }
>  
> @@ -122,6 +124,8 @@ static void run_cmt_test(bool has_ben, char **benchmark_cmd, int cpu_no)
>  		sprintf(benchmark_cmd[5], "%s", CMT_STR);
>  	res = cmt_resctrl_val(cpu_no, 5, benchmark_cmd);
>  	ksft_test_result(!res, "CMT: test\n");
> +	if ((get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL) && res)
> +		ksft_print_msg("Intel CMT may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n");
>  	cmt_test_cleanup();
>  }
>  

Thank you very much for adding this.

Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>

Reinette
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diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
index dc548d3e2454..97ad6cfee6ee 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@  static void run_mbm_test(bool has_ben, char **benchmark_cmd, int span,
 		sprintf(benchmark_cmd[5], "%s", MBA_STR);
 	res = mbm_bw_change(span, cpu_no, bw_report, benchmark_cmd);
 	ksft_test_result(!res, "MBM: bw change\n");
+	if ((get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL) && res)
+		ksft_print_msg("Intel MBM may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n");
 	mbm_test_cleanup();
 }
 
@@ -122,6 +124,8 @@  static void run_cmt_test(bool has_ben, char **benchmark_cmd, int cpu_no)
 		sprintf(benchmark_cmd[5], "%s", CMT_STR);
 	res = cmt_resctrl_val(cpu_no, 5, benchmark_cmd);
 	ksft_test_result(!res, "CMT: test\n");
+	if ((get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL) && res)
+		ksft_print_msg("Intel CMT may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n");
 	cmt_test_cleanup();
 }