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From: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
	Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>, Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>,
	Drew Fustini <fustini@kernel.org>,
	Vikram Sethi <vsethi@nvidia.com>,
	Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com>,
	Newton Liu <newtonl@nvidia.com>, Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 21/23] Documentation: resctrl: document MB_NODE emulation example on ARM MPAM
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:03:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260716210329.2914625-21-fenghuay@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1784217438.git.fenghuay@nvidia.com>

Add an ARM MPAM specific example to the generic "MBA control emulation"
section: the concrete MB and MB_NODE controls (their scope, status, and
schemata identifiers), how MB_NODE emulates MB in legacy mode, and the
resource_schemata subdirectory layouts for the enabled/disabled MB
combinations.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst
index a88ea9c2a386..6027b2f9aa15 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst
@@ -1087,6 +1087,58 @@ down and recreated, so a concurrent reader may briefly observe
 the control subdirectories are informational only and the actual bandwidth
 configuration in each group's ``schemata`` file is unaffected.
 
+The following illustrates one such configuration on ARM MPAM.
+
+ARM MPAM example
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+On ARM MPAM systems where the MBA resource is backed by a memory-level
+MSC, the kernel exposes two bandwidth controls:
+
+``MB`` (default):
+	The legacy control. When the L3 cache MSC has usable MBA hardware,
+	this control is backed by cache-level MBW (``mbw_max``) hardware,
+	its ``status`` reads ``enabled``, and its ``scope`` reads ``L3``.
+	The ``MB:`` schemata line uses L3 cache identifiers.
+
+``MB_NODE``:
+	The native, node-scoped control. When the memory MSC has usable MBA
+	hardware, this control is backed by node-level MBW hardware, its
+	``status`` reads ``enabled``, and its ``scope`` reads ``NODE``.
+	The ``MB_NODE:`` schemata line uses NUMA node identifiers.
+
+``MB_NODE`` is the native control that emulates ``MB`` in legacy mode
+when ``MB`` has no MBW hardware of its own.
+
+``MB_NODE`` is only created on a memory-class MBA resource, and such a
+resource is only registered when it has usable MBA hardware, so whenever
+``MB_NODE`` is present its ``status`` reads ``enabled``. (If ``MB_NODE``
+is not supported it is simply absent from ``info/MB/resource_schemata/``.)
+The control subdirectory layout therefore depends only on the ``MB``
+control's ``status`` (the trees below show ``legacy`` mode; in ``native``
+mode every control is a sibling directly under ``resource_schemata/``):
+
+**MB disabled, MB_NODE enabled** (``MB`` emulated by ``MB_NODE``)::
+
+	info/MB/resource_schemata/
+	├── mode
+	└── MB/
+	    ├── scope                     # NODE
+	    ├── status                    # disabled
+	    └── MB_NODE/
+	        ├── scope                 # NODE
+	        └── status                # enabled
+
+**MB enabled, MB_NODE enabled**::
+
+	info/MB/resource_schemata/
+	├── mode
+	├── MB/
+	│   ├── scope                     # L3
+	│   └── status                    # enabled
+	└── MB_NODE/
+	    ├── scope                     # NODE
+	    └── status                    # enabled
+
 Memory bandwidth Allocation specified in MiBps
 ----------------------------------------------
 
-- 
2.43.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-16 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-16 21:02 [PATCH RFC 00/23] resctrl: MBA control emulation and ARM MPAM MB_NODE support Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 01/23] resctrl: Fix ownership of resource_schemata control subdirectories Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 02/23] arm_mpam: Fix NULL address access issue Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 03/23] resctrl: Expose MBA resource_schemata mode sysfs Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 04/23] resctrl: Expose per-control status in resource_schemata Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 05/23] resctrl: Add nested resource_schemata support for emulated controls Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 06/23] resctrl: Mirror schemata for controls without MBW hardware Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 07/23] resctrl: Rebuild resource_schemata subdirs on MBA mode change Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 08/23] Documentation: resctrl: document MBA control emulation Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:02 ` [PATCH 09/23] resctrl: De-hardcode L3 monitor infrastructure Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 10/23] resctrl: Expose MBA MBM counter assignment sysfs Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 11/23] resctrl: name node-scoped monitor domains mon_NODE_<id> Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 12/23] resctrl: Add node-scope MBM total event Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 13/23] resctrl: Make MBM paths resource-aware Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 14/23] arm_mpam: Support memory-level MSCs and ABMC per class Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 15/23] arm_mpam: Refine L3 topology and class selection Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 16/23] arm_mpam: Include all MSC components during domain setup Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 17/23] arm_mpam: Handle CPU-less numa nodes Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 18/23] arm_mpam: Emulate MB control with node-scoped MB_NODE control Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 19/23] Documentation: arm64: mpam: document memory-level MB control and NUMA nodes Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 20/23] Documentation: resctrl: document NODE-scoped MBA domains and mon_NODE monitoring Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` Fenghua Yu [this message]
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 22/23] arm_mpam: Add KUnit test for CPU-less NUMA node affinity Fenghua Yu
2026-07-16 21:03 ` [PATCH 23/23] selftests/resctrl: Add MB emulation test for ARM MPAM Fenghua Yu

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