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Xiaochen Shen authored
The MBA software controller (mba_sc) is a feedback loop which periodically reads MBM counters and tries to restrict the bandwidth below a user-specified value. It tags along the MBM counter overflow handler to do the updates with 1s interval in mbm_update() and update_mba_bw(). The purpose of mbm_update() is to periodically read the MBM counters to make sure that the hardware counter doesn't wrap around more than once between user samplings. mbm_update() calls __mon_event_count() for local bandwidth updating when mba_sc is not enabled, but calls mbm_bw_count() instead when mba_sc is enabled. __mon_event_count() will not be called for local bandwidth updating in MBM counter overflow handler, but it is still called when reading MBM local bandwidth counter file 'mbm_local_bytes', the call path is as below: rdtgroup_mondata_show() mon_event_read() mon_event_count() __mon_event_count() In __mon_event_count(), m->chunks is updated by delta chunks which is calculated from previous MSR value (m->prev_msr) and current MSR value. When mba_sc is enabled, m->chunks is also updated in mbm_update() by mistake by the delta chunks which is calculated from m->prev_bw_msr instead of m->prev_msr. But m->chunks is not used in update_mba_bw() in the mba_sc feedback loop. When reading MBM local bandwidth counter file, m->chunks was changed unexpectedly by mbm_bw_count(). As a result, the incorrect local bandwidth counter which calculated from incorrect m->chunks is shown to the user. Fix this by removing incorrect m->chunks updating in mbm_bw_count() in MBM counter overflow handler, and always calling __mon_event_count() in mbm_update() to make sure that the hardware local bandwidth counter doesn't wrap around. Test steps: # Run workload with aggressive memory bandwidth (e.g., 10 GB/s) git clone https://github.com/intel/intel-cmt-cat && cd intel-cmt-cat && make ./tools/membw/membw -c 0 -b 10000 --read # Enable MBA software controller mount -t resctrl resctrl -o mba_MBps /sys/fs/resctrl # Create control group c1 mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/c1 # Set MB throttle to 6 GB/s echo "MB:0=6000;1=6000" > /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/schemata # Write PID of the workload to tasks file echo `pidof membw` > /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/tasks # Read local bytes counters twice with 1s interval, the calculated # local bandwidth is not as expected (approaching to 6 GB/s): local_1=`cat /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/mon_data/mon_L3_00/mbm_local_bytes` sleep 1 local_2=`cat /sys/fs/resctrl/c1/mon_data/mon_L3_00/mbm_local_bytes` echo "local b/w (bytes/s):" `expr $local_2 - $local_1` Before fix: local b/w (bytes/s): 11076796416 After fix: local b/w (bytes/s): 5465014272 Fixes: ba0f26d8 (x86/intel_rdt/mba_sc: Prepare for feedback loop) Signed-off-by: Xiaochen Shen <xiaochen.shen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1607063279-19437-1-git-send-email-xiaochen.shen@intel.com
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