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Signed-off-by: Yi Sun Acked-by: Wei Liu Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné --- CC: Ian Jackson CC: Wei Liu CC: Roger Pau Monné CC: Chao Peng v5: - remove 'closed-loop' in 'xl-psr.markdown' (suggested by Roger Pau Monné) v4: - modify description of MBA in 'xl.pod.1.in' to be same as feature doc. (suggested by Roger Pau Monné) - fix words issue. (suggested by Roger Pau Monné) v2: - state the value type shown by 'psr-mba-show'. For linear mode, it shows decimal value. For non-linear mode, it shows hexadecimal value. (suggested by Chao Peng) --- docs/man/xl.pod.1.in | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/misc/xl-psr.markdown | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/man/xl.pod.1.in b/docs/man/xl.pod.1.in index 486a24f..7fd35c9 100644 --- a/docs/man/xl.pod.1.in +++ b/docs/man/xl.pod.1.in @@ -1850,6 +1850,39 @@ processed. =back +=head2 Memory Bandwidth Allocation + +Intel Skylake and later server platforms offer capabilities to configure and +make use of the Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) mechanisms, which provides +OS/VMMs the ability to slow misbehaving apps/VMs by using a credit-based +throttling mechanism. In the Xen implementation, MBA is used to control memory +bandwidth on VM basis. To enforce bandwidth on a specific domain, just set +throttling value (THRTL) for the domain. + +=over 4 + +=item B [I] I I + +Set throttling value (THRTL) for a domain. For how to specify I +please refer to L. + +B + +=over 4 + +=item B<-s SOCKET>, B<--socket=SOCKET> + +Specify the socket to process, otherwise all sockets are processed. + +=back + +=item B [I] + +Show MBA settings for a certain domain or all domains. For linear mode, it +shows the decimal value. For non-linear mode, it shows hexadecimal value. + +=back + =head1 IGNORED FOR COMPATIBILITY WITH XM xl is mostly command-line compatible with the old xm utility used with diff --git a/docs/misc/xl-psr.markdown b/docs/misc/xl-psr.markdown index 04dd957..3d196ed 100644 --- a/docs/misc/xl-psr.markdown +++ b/docs/misc/xl-psr.markdown @@ -186,6 +186,68 @@ Setting data CBM for a domain: Setting the same code and data CBM for a domain: `xl psr-cat-set ` +## Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) + +Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA) is a new feature available on Intel +Skylake and later server platforms that allows an OS or Hypervisor/VMM to +slow misbehaving apps/VMs by using a credit-based throttling mechanism. To +enforce bandwidth on a specific domain, just set throttling value (THRTL) +into Class of Service (COS). MBA provides two THRTL mode. One is linear mode +and the other is non-linear mode. + +In the linear mode the input precision is defined as 100-(THRTL_MAX). Values +not an even multiple of the precision (e.g., 12%) will be rounded down (e.g., +to 10% delay by the hardware). + +If linear values are not supported then input delay values are powers-of-two +from zero to the THRTL_MAX value from CPUID. In this case any values not a power +of two will be rounded down the next nearest power of two. + +For example, assuming a system with 2 domains: + + * A THRTL of 0x0 for every domain means each domain can access the whole cache + without any delay. This is the default. + + * Linear mode: Giving one domain a THRTL of 0xC and the other domain's 0 means + that the first domain gets 10% delay to access the cache and the other one + without any delay. + + * Non-linear mode: Giving one domain a THRTL of 0xC and the other domain's 0 + means that the first domain gets 8% delay to access the cache and the other + one without any delay. + +For more detailed information please refer to Intel SDM chapter +"Introduction to Memory Bandwidth Allocation". + +In Xen's implementation, THRTL can be configured with libxl/xl interfaces but +COS is maintained in hypervisor only. The cache partition granularity is per +domain, each domain has COS=0 assigned by default, the corresponding THRTL is +0, which means all the cache resource can be accessed without delay. + +### xl interfaces + +System MBA information such as maximum COS and maximum THRTL can be obtained by: + +`xl psr-hwinfo --mba` + +The simplest way to change a domain's THRTL from its default is running: + +`xl psr-mba-set [OPTIONS] ` + +In a multi-socket system, the same thrtl will be set on each socket by default. +Per socket thrtl can be specified with the `--socket SOCKET` option. + +Setting the THRTL may not be successful if insufficient COS is available. In +such case unused COS(es) may be freed by setting THRTL of all related domains to +its default value(0). + +Per domain THRTL settings can be shown by: + +`xl psr-mba-show [OPTIONS] ` + +For linear mode, it shows the decimal value. For non-linear mode, it shows +hexadecimal value. + ## Reference [1] Intel SDM