Vikas Shivappa c39a0e2c88 x86/perf/cqm: Wipe out perf based cqm ... 'perf cqm' never worked due to the incompatibility between perf infrastructure and cqm hardware support. The hardware uses RMIDs to track the llc occupancy of tasks and these RMIDs are per package. This makes monitoring a hierarchy like cgroup along with monitoring of tasks separately difficult and several patches sent to lkml to fix them were NACKed. Further more, the following issues in the current perf cqm make it almost unusable: 1. No support to monitor the same group of tasks for which we do allocation using resctrl. 2. It gives random and inaccurate data (mostly 0s) once we run out of RMIDs due to issues in Recycling. 3. Recycling results in inaccuracy of data because we cannot guarantee that the RMID was stolen from a task when it was not pulling data into cache or even when it pulled the least data. Also for monitoring llc_occupancy, if we stop using an RMID_x and then start using an RMID_y after we reclaim an RMID from an other event, we miss accounting all the occupancy that was tagged to RMID_x at a later perf_count. 2. Recycling code makes the monitoring code complex including scheduling because the event can lose RMID any time. Since MBM counters count bandwidth for a period of time by taking snap shot of total bytes at two different times, recycling complicates the way we count MBM in a hierarchy. Also we need a spin lock while we do the processing to account for MBM counter overflow. We also currently use a spin lock in scheduling to prevent the RMID from being taken away. 4. Lack of support when we run different kind of event like task, system-wide and cgroup events together. Data mostly prints 0s. This is also because we can have only one RMID tied to a cpu as defined by the cqm hardware but a perf can at the same time tie multiple events during one sched_in. 5. No support of monitoring a group of tasks. There is partial support for cgroup but it does not work once there is a hierarchy of cgroups or if we want to monitor a task in a cgroup and the cgroup itself. 6. No support for monitoring tasks for the lifetime without perf overhead. 7. It reported the aggregate cache occupancy or memory bandwidth over all sockets. But most cloud and VMM based use cases want to know the individual per-socket usage. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: davidcc@google.com Cc: reinette.chatre@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1501017287-28083-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com		2017-08-01 22:41:18 +02:00
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asm	x86/perf/cqm: Wipe out perf based cqm	2017-08-01 22:41:18 +02:00
uapi/asm	KVM: async_pf: Let guest support delivery of async_pf from guest mode	2017-07-14 14:26:16 +02:00