Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] arch/x86: AMD QoS support

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

Hi Thomas,

On 10/18/18 5:52 PM, Moger, Babu wrote:
> This series adds support for AMD64 architectural extensions for Platform
> Quality of Service. These extensions are intended to provide for the
> monitoring of the usage of certain system resources by one or more
> processors and for the separate allocation and enforcement of limits on
> the use of certain system resources by one or more processors.
> 
> The monitoring and enforcement are not necessarily applied across the
> entire system, but in general apply to a QOS domain which corresponds to
> some shared system resource.  The set of resources which are monitored and
> the set for which the enforcement of limits is provided are implementation
> dependent. Platform QOS features are implemented on a logical processor basis.
> Therefore, multiple hardware threads of a single physical CPU core may have
> independent resource monitoring and enforcement configurations.
> 
> AMD's next generation of processors support following QoS sub-features.
> - L3 Cache allocation enforcement
> - L3 Cache occupancy monitoring
> - L3 Code-Data Prioritization support
> - Memory Bandwidth Enforcement(Allocation)
> 
> The public specification for this feature is available at
> https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/56375.pdf
> 
> Obviously, there are multiple ways we can go about these changes. We felt
> it is appropriate to rename and re-organize the code little bit before
> making the functional changes. The first few patches(1-10) renames and
> re-organizes the sources in preparation. Rest of the patches(7-11) adds
> support for AMD QoS features.
> 
> Please review and provide me feedback.
> 
> Changes from v4 -> v5:
>  a. Addressed comments from Fenghua Yu.
>  b. The functions update_mba_bw and set_mba_sc is not required for AMD.
>     Removed all the changes related to these functions.
> 
> Changes from v3 -> v4:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181015205514.25387-1-babu.moger@amd.com/
>  a. Addressed comments from Reinette Chatre and Borislav Petkov.
>  b. Removed X86 dependancy for CONFIG_AMD_QOS. Implicitly is it already
>     dependent on X86.
>  c. Updated the MAINTAINER file for name changes.
>  d. Addressed most of "checkpatch.pl --strict" issues.
>  d. Updated Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt(previously
>     intel_rdt_ui.txt) file with AMD specific details. Changed few names
>     to resctrl from intel_rdt.
> 
> Changes from v2 -> v3:
>  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181011203223.18157-1-babu.moger@amd.com/
>  a. Rebased the patches on top of below branch as suggested by Thomas Gleixner.
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/cache
>  b. Addressed comments from Reinette Chatre, Fenghua Yu and Borislav Petkov.
>  c. Main changes are related to renaming the files and functions.
>     Renamed from intel_rdt to more generic resctrl(patches 1 to 3).
>  d. Config parameter changed from PLATFORM_QOS to more generic RESCTRL.
>  e. Fixed minor indentation issues.
> 
> Changes from v1 -> v2:
>  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181005205512.29545-1-babu.moger@amd.com/
>  a. Removed RFC from subject header. Based on the discussion so far, 
>     plan is to go ahead with these patches and eventually re-structure
>     the code to make arch and non-arch separate.
>  b. Addressed comments from Reinette Chatre and Fenghua Yu.
>  c. Separated quirks and MBA from rdt init code. Kept the rest of the
>     code as is.
>  d. Added _intel suffixes all the Intel only code just like AMD code.
>  e. Added one more patch to bring the macros into header file.
>  f. Few minor text changes.
> 
> v1:
>  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180924191841.29111-1-babu.moger@amd.com/
> 
> 
> Babu Moger (12):
>   arch/x86: Start renaming the rdt files to more generic names
>   arch/x86: Rename the RDT functions and definitions
>   arch/x86: Re-arrange RDT init code
>   arch/x86: Bring all the macros to resctrl.h
>   arch/x86: Introduce a new config parameter RESCTRL
>   arch/x86: Use new config parameter RESCTRL for compilation
>   arch/x86: Initialize the resource functions that are different
>   arch/x86: Bring cbm_validate function into the resource structure
>   arch/x86: Introduce new config parameter AMD_QOS
>   arch/x86: Introduce QOS feature for AMD
>   Documentation/x86: Rename and update intel_rdt_ui.txt
>   MAINTAINERS: Update the file and documentation names in arch/x86
> 
> Sherry Hurwitz (1):
>   arch/x86: Add AMD feature bit X86_FEATURE_MBA in cpuid bits array
> 
>  .../x86/{intel_rdt_ui.txt => resctrl_ui.txt}  |   9 +-
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   6 +-
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                              |  19 ++
>  .../{intel_rdt_sched.h => resctrl_sched.h}    |  28 +--
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile                  |   6 +-
>  .../x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.c => resctrl.c} | 168 +++++++++++++++---
>  .../x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.h => resctrl.h} |  37 ++--
>  ...dt_ctrlmondata.c => resctrl_ctrlmondata.c} |  80 ++++++++-
>  ...{intel_rdt_monitor.c => resctrl_monitor.c} |  20 +--
>  ...dt_pseudo_lock.c => resctrl_pseudo_lock.c} |   6 +-
>  ...ck_event.h => resctrl_pseudo_lock_event.h} |   2 +-
>  ...ntel_rdt_rdtgroup.c => resctrl_rdtgroup.c} |  14 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c               |   7 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c                  |   4 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c                  |   4 +-
>  include/linux/sched.h                         |   2 +-
>  16 files changed, 317 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
>  rename Documentation/x86/{intel_rdt_ui.txt => resctrl_ui.txt} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/include/asm/{intel_rdt_sched.h => resctrl_sched.h} (77%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.c => resctrl.c} (85%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.h => resctrl.h} (94%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c => resctrl_ctrlmondata.c} (86%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_monitor.c => resctrl_monitor.c} (97%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_pseudo_lock.c => resctrl_pseudo_lock.c} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_pseudo_lock_event.h => resctrl_pseudo_lock_event.h} (95%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c => resctrl_rdtgroup.c} (99%)
> 

Do you have any concerns with these patches? Can this be included in the
maintainers tree and hopefully get into 4.21?