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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/microcode.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/topology.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt b/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt index 6851854cf69d..71c30984e94d 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt @@ -7,15 +7,24 @@ Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com> This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_INTEL_RDT Kconfig and the -X86 /proc/cpuinfo flag bits "rdt", "cqm", "cat_l3" and "cdp_l3". +X86 /proc/cpuinfo flag bits: +RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation - "rdt_a" +CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) - "cat_l3", "cat_l2" +CDP (Code and Data Prioritization ) - "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2" +CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) - "cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc" +MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring) - "cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local" +MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) - "mba" To use the feature mount the file system: - # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp] /sys/fs/resctrl + # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2]] /sys/fs/resctrl mount options are: "cdp": Enable code/data prioritization in L3 cache allocations. +"cdpl2": Enable code/data prioritization in L2 cache allocations. + +L2 and L3 CDP are controlled seperately. RDT features are orthogonal. A particular system may support only monitoring, only control, or both monitoring and control. @@ -662,7 +671,7 @@ occupancy of the real time threads on these cores. # mkdir p1 Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1 -# echo f0 > p0/cpus +# echo f0 > p1/cpus View the llc occupancy snapshot diff --git a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt index f57e1b45e628..79fdb4a8148a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/microcode.txt @@ -108,12 +108,11 @@ packages already put them there. ==================== The loader supports also loading of a builtin microcode supplied through -the regular firmware builtin method CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL. Only -64-bit is currently supported. +the regular builtin firmware method CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE. Only 64-bit is +currently supported. Here's an example: -CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-3a-09 amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam15h.bin" CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware" diff --git a/Documentation/x86/topology.txt b/Documentation/x86/topology.txt index f3e9d7e9ed6c..2953e3ec9a02 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/topology.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/topology.txt @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ The topology of a system is described in the units of: The number of online threads is also printed in /proc/cpuinfo "siblings." - - topology_sibling_mask(): + - topology_sibling_cpumask(): The cpumask contains all online threads in the core to which a thread belongs. |