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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, he.chen@linux.intel.com,
	andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, dario.faggioli@citrix.com,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, mengxu@cis.upenn.edu,
	chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 21/24] tools: L2 CAT: support get HW info for L2 CAT.
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:26:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170109092616.GD1100@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58735877020000780012E093@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:31:35AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 09.01.17 at 02:19, <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On 17-01-06 12:04:36, Wei Liu wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:08:01PM +0800, Yi Sun wrote:
> >> > This patch implements xl/xc changes to support get HW info
> >> > for L2 CAT.
> >> > 
> >> > 'xl psr-hwinfo' is updated to show both L3 CAT and L2 CAT
> >> > info.
> >> > 
> >> > Example(on machine which only supports L2 CAT):
> >> > Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT):
> >> > Enabled         : 0
> >> > Cache Allocation Technology (CAT): L3
> >> > libxl: error: libxl_psr.c:100:libxl__psr_cat_log_err_msg: CAT is not enabled on the socket: No such file or directory
> >> > Failed to get l3 cat info
> >> 
> >> What is this?
> >> 
> > The psr-hwinfo prints all features out by design. This test was executed on a
> > machine which only supports L2 CAT. So, the L3 CAT not supported info will be
> > printed out.
> 
> But there is an indication of error(s), which shouldn't be the case just
> because of non-present hardware. The hypercall may return failure
> in such a case of course, but this shouldn't propagate to error/failure
> messages being printed (but at the same time you need to make sure
> you don't hide actual errors). Perhaps there's a call missing querying
> host capabilities (based on the result of which further info queries
> would be issued)?
> 

This is what I thought as well.

> Jan
> 

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Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-14  4:07 [PATCH v4 00/24] Enable L2 Cache Allocation Technology & Refactor psr.c Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 01/24] docs: create L2 Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) feature document Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 02/24] x86: refactor psr: remove L3 CAT/CDP codes Yi Sun
2016-12-22 16:03   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-26  2:28     ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 03/24] x86: refactor psr: implement main data structures Yi Sun
2016-12-22 16:13   ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-26  6:56     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-03  8:00       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-03  8:49         ` Yi Sun
2017-01-03  9:12           ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-03 10:28             ` Yi Sun
2017-01-03 11:23               ` Jan Beulich
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 04/24] x86: refactor psr: implement CPU init and free flow Yi Sun
2017-01-10 11:45   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  3:14     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-11 13:48       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-12  1:07         ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 05/24] x86: refactor psr: implement Domain init/free and schedule flows Yi Sun
2017-01-10 13:34   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  3:17     ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 06/24] x86: refactor psr: implement get hw info flow Yi Sun
2017-01-10 13:46   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  5:13     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-11 13:53       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-12  1:08         ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 07/24] x86: refactor psr: implement get value flow Yi Sun
2017-01-10 13:50   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  5:16     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-11 13:54       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-12  1:09         ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 08/24] x86: refactor psr: set value: implement framework Yi Sun
2017-01-10 14:17   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  5:57     ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 09/24] x86: refactor psr: set value: assemble features value array Yi Sun
2017-01-10 14:34   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  6:07     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-11 13:57       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-12  1:17         ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 10/24] x86: refactor psr: set value: implement cos finding flow Yi Sun
2017-01-10 14:53   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  6:10     ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 11/24] x86: refactor psr: set value: implement cos id allocation flow Yi Sun
2017-01-10 15:08   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  6:16     ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 12/24] x86: refactor psr: set value: implement write msr flow Yi Sun
2017-01-10 15:15   ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-11  6:22     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-11 14:01       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-12  1:22         ` Yi Sun
2017-01-12  9:40           ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-12 10:22             ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 13/24] x86: refactor psr: implement CPU init and free flow for CDP Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 14/24] x86: refactor psr: implement get hw info " Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 15/24] x86: refactor psr: implement get value " Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 16/24] x86: refactor psr: implement set value callback functions " Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 17/24] x86: L2 CAT: implement CPU init and free flow Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 18/24] x86: L2 CAT: implement get hw info flow Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:07 ` [PATCH v4 19/24] x86: L2 CAT: implement get value flow Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:08 ` [PATCH v4 20/24] x86: L2 CAT: implement set " Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:08 ` [PATCH v4 21/24] tools: L2 CAT: support get HW info for L2 CAT Yi Sun
2017-01-06 12:04   ` Wei Liu
2017-01-09  1:19     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-09  8:31       ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-09  9:26         ` Wei Liu [this message]
2017-01-10  8:00           ` Yi Sun
2017-01-10  8:46             ` Jan Beulich
2017-01-10  9:01               ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:08 ` [PATCH v4 22/24] tools: L2 CAT: support show cbm " Yi Sun
2017-01-06 12:04   ` Wei Liu
2017-01-09  1:24     ` Yi Sun
2017-01-09 10:08       ` Wei Liu
2017-01-10  7:47         ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:08 ` [PATCH v4 23/24] tools: L2 CAT: support set " Yi Sun
2017-01-06 12:04   ` Wei Liu
2017-01-09  1:14     ` Yi Sun
2016-12-14  4:08 ` [PATCH v4 24/24] docs: add L2 CAT description in docs Yi Sun
2017-01-06 12:04   ` Wei Liu
2017-01-09  1:25     ` Yi Sun

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