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* [PATCH v2 0/5] enable Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) for VMs
@ 2015-01-07 11:12 Chao Peng
  2015-01-07 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] x86: expose CMT L3 event mask to user space Chao Peng
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From: Chao Peng @ 2015-01-07 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel
  Cc: wei.liu2, Ian.Campbell, stefano.stabellini, Ian.Jackson, JBeulich,
	keir

Changes from v1:
* Move event type check from xc to xl;
* Add retry capability for MBM sampling;
* Fix Coding style/docs;

Intel Memory Bandwidth Monitoring(MBM) is a new hardware feature
which builds on the CMT infrastructure to allow monitoring of system
memory bandwidth. Event codes are provided to monitor both "total"
and "local" bandwidth, meaning bandwidth over QPI and other external
links can be monitored.

For XEN, MBM is used to monitor memory bandwidth for VMs. Due to its
dependency on CMT, the software also makes use of most of CMT codes.
Actually, besides introducing two additional events and some cpuid
feature bits, there are no extra changes compared to cache occupancy
monitoring in CMT. Due to this, CMT should be enabled first to use
this feature.

For interface changes, the patch serial only introduces a new command
"XEN_SYSCTL_PSR_CMT_get_l3_event_mask" which exposes MBM feature
capability to user space and introduces two additional options for
"xl psr-cmt-show":
total_mem_bandwidth:     Show total memory bandwidth
local_mem_bandwidth:     Show local memory bandwidth

The usage flow keeps the same with CMT.

Chao Peng (5):
  x86: expose CMT L3 event mask to user space
  tools: add routine to get CMT L3 event mask
  tools: correct coding style for psr
  tools: code refactoring for MBM
  tools: add total/local memory bandwith monitoring

 docs/man/xl.pod.1             |    9 +++
 tools/libxc/include/xenctrl.h |   11 +--
 tools/libxc/xc_psr.c          |   42 ++++++++++--
 tools/libxl/libxl.h           |   20 ++++--
 tools/libxl/libxl_psr.c       |  147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl   |    2 +
 tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c      |   69 +++++++++++++------
 tools/libxl/xl_cmdtable.c     |    4 +-
 xen/arch/x86/sysctl.c         |    3 +
 xen/include/public/sysctl.h   |    1 +
 10 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.9.5

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2015-01-07 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] tools: add routine to get CMT L3 event mask Chao Peng
2015-01-07 11:27   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-01-07 16:37     ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-07 16:54       ` Wei Liu
2015-01-07 17:04       ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-07 17:09       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-01-07 21:43         ` Ian Jackson
2015-01-08  3:19           ` Chao Peng
2015-01-07 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] tools: correct coding style for psr Chao Peng
2015-01-07 11:16   ` Wei Liu
2015-01-07 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] tools: code refactoring for MBM Chao Peng
2015-01-07 12:15   ` Wei Liu
2015-01-07 11:12 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] tools: add total/local memory bandwith monitoring Chao Peng
2015-01-07 12:23   ` Wei Liu

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