Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] selftests/resctrl: Add resctrl selftest

["Moger, Babu" <Babu.Moger@amd.com>]

Hi Fenghua/Sai/Arshiya,
  We were thinking of updating these selftests to work on both Intel and
AMD. What do you guys think?

If that is ok, I can update these patches and resubmit. If you have
already updated, please post the latest series. I will use the latest
version. Please let me know.
Thanks

On 12/21/18 6:20 PM, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> With more and more resctrl features are being added by Intel, AMD
> and ARM, a test tool is becoming more and more useful to validate
> that both hardware and software functionalities work as expected.
> 
> We introduce resctrl selftest to cover resctrl features on both
> X86 and ARM architectures. It first implements MBM (Memory Bandwidth
> Monitoring) and MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) tests. We can enhance
> the selftest tool to include more functionality tests in future.
> 
> There is an existing resctrl test suite 'intel_cmt_cat'. But the major
> purpose of the tool is to test Intel(R) RDT hardware via writing and
> reading MSR registers. It does access resctrl file system; but the
> functionalities are very limited. And it doesn't support automatic test
> and a lot of manual verifications are involved.
> 
> So the selftest tool we are introducing here provides a convenient
> tool which does automatic resctrl testing, is easily available in kernel
> tree, and will be extended to AMD QoS and ARM MPAM.
> 
> The selftest tool is in tools/testing/selftests/resctrl in order to have
> generic test code for all architectures.
> 
> Changelog:
> v4: 
> - address comments from Balu and Randy
> - Add CAT and CQM tests
> 
> v3:
> - Change code based on comments from Babu Moger
> - Remove some unnessary code and use pipe to communicate b/w processes
> 
> v2:
> - Change code based on comments from Babu Moger
> - Clean up other places.
> 
> Arshiya Hayatkhan Pathan (4):
>   selftests/resctrl: Add MBM test
>   selftests/resctrl: Add MBA test
>   selftests/resctrl Add Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) selftest
>   selftests/resctrl: Add Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) selftest
> 
> Fenghua Yu (2):
>   selftests/resctrl: Add README for resctrl tests
>   selftests/resctrl: Add the test in MAINTAINERS
> 
> Sai Praneeth Prakhya (4):
>   selftests/resctrl: Add basic resctrl file system operations and data
>   selftests/resctrl: Read memory bandwidth from perf IMC counter and
>     from resctrl file system
>   selftests/resctrl: Add callback to start a benchmark
>   selftests/resctrl: Add built in benchmark
> 
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   1 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/Makefile      |  16 +
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/README        |  53 ++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cache.c       | 275 +++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c    | 243 ++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cqm_test.c    | 169 ++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c    | 198 +++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c    | 174 +++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c    | 146 ++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h     | 104 +++
>  .../testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c | 175 +++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_val.c | 727 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c   | 643 ++++++++++++++++
>  13 files changed, 2924 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/README
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cache.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cqm_test.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/fill_buf.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_val.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c
>