Re: [PATCH v3 00/21] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl_arch_rmid_read() return values in bytes

[James Morse]

Hi Cristian,

On 15/03/2022 12:10, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> I tested this on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120T trying to compare gathered
> resctrl monitor data with and without your series and see if results
> were consistent.
> 
> I started from this paper [0] from Intel itself for my basic setup with
> some minor variations:

[..]

> While doing that I collect in background (and out of node1 processors) all
> the mon_data from the lc_cos group every 100ms and dump those in a file one
> for each cache allocation mask. (mondata_LC_7f0_00f.txt etc)
> 
> I tested first against a v5.17-rc1 mainline without your series (named as
> 5.17.0-rc1-mainline in the results) and then again with your series on top
> (named as 5.17.0-rc1-00021-g21c69a5706a5). Got your series from [1].
> 
> Then I used gnuplot to see what was the 'profile' of this data with and
> without your series by plotting the LC process llc_occupancy data against
> time for each one of the runs with the differerent cache allocated.
> (each colored graphs represent a different run with a different
> cache allocation as reported)

> Hope this helps...

This is great, thanks!

Can I take this as a Tested-by?



Thanks,

James