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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>,
	"Shivappa, Vikas" <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Shankar, Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	"Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
	"davidcc@google.com" <davidcc@google.com>,
	"eranian@google.com" <eranian@google.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] x86/cqm: Cqm requirements
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:22:04 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703072119300.4299@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F6120F0A9@ORSMSX113.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Luck, Tony wrote:

> > That's all nice and good, but I still have no coherent explanation why
> > measuring across allocation domains makes sense.
> 
> Is this in reaction to this one?
> 
> >> 5)      Put multiple threads into a single measurement group
> 
> If we fix it to say "threads from the same CAT group" does it fix things?
> 
> We'd like to have measurement groups use a single RMID ... if we
> allowed tasks from different CAT groups in the same measurement
> group we wouldn't be able to split the numbers back to report the
> right overall total for each of the CAT groups.

Right. And the same applies to CPU measurements. If we have threads from 3
CAT groups running on a CPU then the aggregate value (except for bandwidth
which can be computed by software) is useless.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 17:49 Vikas Shivappa
2017-03-07 19:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-07 20:04   ` Luck, Tony
2017-03-07 20:22     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-03-07 23:29     ` Stephane Eranian
2017-03-07 23:31       ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-03-08  8:30       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-08 17:58         ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-03-09 11:01           ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-09 18:05             ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-03-10 14:53               ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-11  1:53                 ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-03-13 19:10                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-03-13 19:58                     ` David Carrillo-Cisneros
2017-03-13 20:21                       ` Thomas Gleixner

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