Re: [PATCH v13 00/27] x86/resctrl : Support AMD Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters (ABMC)

[Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

Hi Babu,

On 5/20/25 8:28 AM, Moger, Babu wrote:
> On 5/19/25 10:59, Peter Newman wrote:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> wrote:

...

>>> /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/num_mbm_cntrs: Reports the number of monitoring
>>> counters available for assignment.
>>
>> Earlier I discussed with Reinette[1] what num_mbm_cntrs should
>> represent in a "soft-ABMC" implementation where assignment is
>> implemented by assigning an RMID, which would result in all events
>> being assigned at once.
>>
>> My main concern is how many "counters" you can assign by assigning
>> RMIDs. I recall Reinette proposed reporting the number of groups which
>> can be assigned separately from counters which can be assigned.
> 
> More context may be needed here. Currently, num_mbm_cntrs indicates the
> number of counters available per domain, which is 32.
> 
> At the moment, we can assign 2 counters to each group, meaning each RMID
> can be associated with 2 hardware counters. In theory, it's possible to
> assign all 32 hardware counters to a group—allowing one RMID to be linked
> with up to 32 counters. However, we currently lack the interface to
> support that level of assignment.
> 
> For now, the plan is to support basic assignment and expand functionality
> later once we have the necessary data structure and requirements.

Looks like some requirements did not make it into this implementation.
Do you recall the discussion that resulted in you writing [2]? Looks like
there is a question to Peter in there on how to determine how many "counters"
are available in soft-ABMC. I interpreted [3] at that time to mean that this
information would be available in a future AMD publication.

Reinette

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/afb99efe-0de2-f7ad-d0b8-f2a0ea998efd@amd.com/ 
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALPaoCg3KpF94g2MEmfP_Ro2mQZYFA8sKVkmb+7isotKNgdY9A@mail.gmail.com/