On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 03:12:53PM -0700, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> MBM total and local readings are corrected by the following correction
> factor table on Broadwell server and Skylake server.
> 
> core          rmid            rmid                    correction
> count         count           threshold               factor
> 1             8               0                       1.000000
> 2             16              0                       1.000000
> 3             24              15                      0.969650
> 4             32              0                       1.000000
> 5             40              31                      1.066667
> 6             48              31                      0.969650
> 7             56              47                      1.142857
> 8             64              0                       1.000000
> 9             72              63                      1.185115
> 10            80              63                      1.066553
> 11            88              79                      1.454545
> 12            96              0                       1.000000
> 13            104             95                      1.230769
> 14            112             95                      1.142857
> 15            120             95                      1.066667
> 16            128             0                       1.000000
> 17            136             127                     1.254863
> 18            144             127                     1.185255
> 19            152             0                       1.000000
> 20            160             127                     1.066667
> 21            168             0                       1.000000
> 22            176             159                     1.454334
> 23            184             0                       1.000000
> 24            192             127                     0.969744
> 25            200             191                     1.280246
> 26            208             191                     1.230921
> 27            216             0                       1.000000
> 28            224             191                     1.143118

Table is already in the code, why is it needed in the commit message
too?

> If rmid > rmid threshold, MBM total and local values should be multipled
> by the correction factor.
> 
> The above table is modified for better code:
> 1. The threshold 0 is changed to rmid count - 1 so we don't do correction

Who is "we"?

>    for the case.
> 2. Correction factor is normalized to 2^20 for better performance
>    by avoiding floating point and division calculation in corrected
>    MBM values.
> 
> Detailed information about the correction is described in erratum SKX99:
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/scalable/xeon-scalable-spec-update.html
> and BDF102: 
> https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-e5-v4-spec-update.pdf
> 
> The problem is described in details in "3.6 Intel MBM RMID Imbalance":
> https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-resource-director-technology-rdt-reference-manual.html

I hear those URLs are awfully unstable. I'd suggested you upload the
pdfs to bugzilla but the erratum text is short enough so that you can
simply add it here.

> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Applied to tip:x86/cache.
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c     |  4 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c  | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c 
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> index 9e1712e8aef7..efe3ed61ae0c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> @@ -893,6 +893,10 @@ static __init void __check_quirks_intel(void)
>                       set_rdt_options("!cmt,!mbmtotal,!mbmlocal,!l3cat");
>               else
>                       set_rdt_options("!l3cat");
> +             /* FALLTHROUGH */

WARNING: Prefer 'fallthrough;' over fallthrough comment
#89: FILE: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c:896:
+               /* FALLTHROUGH */


Have you heard of checkpatch.pl?

> +     case INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X:
> +             intel_rdt_mbm_quirk();
> +             break;
>       }

...

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c 
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c
> index 54dffe574e67..05e06744e4b1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <asm/cpu_device_id.h>
> +#include <asm/intel-family.h>
>  #include "internal.h"
>  
>  struct rmid_entry {
> @@ -64,6 +65,61 @@ unsigned int rdt_mon_features;
>   */
>  unsigned int resctrl_cqm_threshold;
>  
> +#define CF(cf)       ((unsigned long)(1048576 * (cf) + 0.5))
> +
> +/*
> + * MBM total and local correction table indexed by CBO which is equal to

"CBO" is?

> + * (x86_cache_max_rmid + 1) / 8 - 1 and is from 0 up to 27.
> + * The correction factor is normalized to 2^20 (1048576) so it's faster
> + * to calculate corrected value by shifting:
> + * corrected_value = (original_value * correction_factor) >> 20
> + */
> +static struct mbm_creation_factor_table {
> +     u32 rmidthreshold;
> +     u64 cf;
> +} mbm_cf_table[] = {

That array wants to be read-only right?

> +     {7,     CF(1.000000)},
> +     {15,    CF(1.000000)},
> +     {15,    CF(0.969650)},
> +     {31,    CF(1.000000)},
> +     {31,    CF(1.066667)},
> +     {31,    CF(0.969650)},
> +     {47,    CF(1.142857)},
> +     {63,    CF(1.000000)},
> +     {63,    CF(1.185115)},
> +     {63,    CF(1.066553)},
> +     {79,    CF(1.454545)},
> +     {95,    CF(1.000000)},
> +     {95,    CF(1.230769)},
> +     {95,    CF(1.142857)},
> +     {95,    CF(1.066667)},
> +     {127,   CF(1.000000)},
> +     {127,   CF(1.254863)},
> +     {127,   CF(1.185255)},
> +     {151,   CF(1.000000)},
> +     {127,   CF(1.066667)},
> +     {167,   CF(1.000000)},
> +     {159,   CF(1.454334)},
> +     {183,   CF(1.000000)},
> +     {127,   CF(0.969744)},
> +     {191,   CF(1.280246)},
> +     {191,   CF(1.230921)},
> +     {215,   CF(1.000000)},
> +     {191,   CF(1.143118)},
> +};
> +
> +static u32 mbm_cf_rmidthreshold = UINT_MAX;
> +static u64 mbm_cf;
> +
> +static inline u64 corrected_mbm_count(u32 rmid, unsigned long val)

Function name needs a verb.

> +{
> +     /* Correct MBM value. */
> +     if (rmid > mbm_cf_rmidthreshold)
> +             val = (val * mbm_cf) >> 20;
> +
> +     return val;
> +}

...

> @@ -644,3 +701,17 @@ int rdt_get_mon_l3_config(struct rdt_resource *r)
>  
>       return 0;
>  }
> +
> +void intel_rdt_mbm_quirk(void)

Function name needs a verb.

> +{
> +     int cf_index;
> +
> +     cf_index = (boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_max_rmid + 1) / 8 - 1;
> +     if (cf_index >= ARRAY_SIZE(mbm_cf_table)) {
> +             pr_info("No MBM correction factor available\n");
> +             return;
> +     }
> +
> +     mbm_cf_rmidthreshold = mbm_cf_table[cf_index].rmidthreshold;
> +     mbm_cf = mbm_cf_table[cf_index].cf;
> +}
> -- 

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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