[PATCH v1 0/9] x86/resctrl: Use soft RMIDs for reliable MBM on AMD

Peter Newman
2023-04-21T14:18:16Z

Hi Reinette, Fenghua,

This series introduces a new mount option enabling an alternate mode for
MBM to work around an issue on present AMD implementations and any other
resctrl implementation where there are more RMIDs (or equivalent) than
hardware counters.

The L3 External Bandwidth Monitoring feature of the AMD PQoS
extension[1] only guarantees that RMIDs currently assigned to a
processor will be tracked by hardware. The counters of any other RMIDs
which are no longer being tracked will be reset to zero. The MBM event
counters return "Unavailable" to indicate when this has happened.

An interval for effectively measuring memory bandwidth typically needs
to be multiple seconds long. In Google's workloads, it is not feasible
to bound the number of jobs with different RMIDs which will run in a
cache domain over any period of time. Consequently, on a
fully-committed system where all RMIDs are allocated, few groups'
counters return non-zero values.

To demonstrate the underlying issue, the first patch provides a test
case in tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/test_rmids.sh.

On an AMD EPYC 7B12 64-Core Processor with the default behavior:

# ./test_rmids.sh
Created 255 monitoring groups.
g1: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> Unavailable (FAIL)
g2: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> Unavailable (FAIL)
g3: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> Unavailable (FAIL)
[..]
g238: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> Unavailable (FAIL)
g239: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> Unavailable (FAIL)
g240: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> Unavailable (FAIL)
g241: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660497472
g242: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660793344
g243: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660477312
g244: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660495360
g245: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660775360
g246: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660645504
g247: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660696128
g248: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660605248
g249: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660681280
g250: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660834240
g251: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660440064
g252: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660501504
g253: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660590720
g254: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660548352
g255: mbm_total_bytes: Unavailable -> 660607296
255 groups, 0 returned counts in first pass, 15 in second
successfully measured bandwidth from 15/255 groups

To compare, here is the output from an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8173M
CPU:

# ./test_rmids.sh
Created 223 monitoring groups.
g1: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 606126080
g2: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 613236736
g3: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 610254848
[..]
g221: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 584679424
g222: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 588808192
g223: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 587317248
223 groups, 223 returned counts in first pass, 223 in second
successfully measured bandwidth from 223/223 groups

To make better use of the hardware in such a use case, this patchset
introduces a "soft" RMID implementation, where each CPU is permanently
assigned a "hard" RMID. On context switches which change the current
soft RMID, the difference between each CPU's current event counts and
most recent counts is added to the totals for the current or outgoing
soft RMID.

This technique does not work for cache occupancy counters, so this patch
series disables cache occupancy events when soft RMIDs are enabled.

This series adds the "mbm_soft_rmid" mount option to allow users to
opt-in to the functionaltiy when they deem it helpful.

When the same system from the earlier AMD example enables the
mbm_soft_rmid mount option:

# ./test_rmids.sh
Created 255 monitoring groups.
g1: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 686560576
g2: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 668204416
[..]
g252: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 672651200
g253: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 666956800
g254: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 665917056
g255: mbm_total_bytes: 0 -> 671049600
255 groups, 255 returned counts in first pass, 255 in second
successfully measured bandwidth from 255/255 groups

(patches are based on tip/master)

[1] https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/56375_1.03_PUB.pdf

Peter Newman (8):
selftests/resctrl: Verify all RMIDs count together
x86/resctrl: Add resctrl_mbm_flush_cpu() to collect CPUs' MBM events
x86/resctrl: Flush MBM event counts on soft RMID change
x86/resctrl: Call mon_event_count() directly for soft RMIDs
x86/resctrl: Create soft RMID version of __mon_event_count()
x86/resctrl: Assign HW RMIDs to CPUs for soft RMID
x86/resctrl: Use mbm_update() to push soft RMID counts
x86/resctrl: Add mount option to enable soft RMID

Stephane Eranian (1):
x86/resctrl: Hold a spinlock in __rmid_read() on AMD

arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl.h | 29 +++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c | 80 ++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 9 +-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h | 19 ++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c | 158 +++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 52 ++++++
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/test_rmids.sh | 93 +++++++++++
7 files changed, 425 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/test_rmids.sh

base-commit: dd806e2f030e57dd5bac973372aa252b6c175b73
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