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5User Interface for Resource Control feature
6===========================================
7
8:Copyright: |copy| 2016 Intel Corporation
9:Authors: - Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
10          - Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
11          - Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>
12
13
14Intel refers to this feature as Intel Resource Director Technology(Intel(R) RDT).
15AMD refers to this feature as AMD Platform Quality of Service(AMD QoS).
16
17This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL and the x86 /proc/cpuinfo
18flag bits:
19
20=============================================	================================
21RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation	"rdt_a"
22CAT (Cache Allocation Technology)		"cat_l3", "cat_l2"
23CDP (Code and Data Prioritization)		"cdp_l3", "cdp_l2"
24CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring)			"cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc"
25MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring)		"cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local"
26MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation)		"mba"
27=============================================	================================
28
29To use the feature mount the file system::
30
31 # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2][,mba_MBps]] /sys/fs/resctrl
32
33mount options are:
34
35"cdp":
36	Enable code/data prioritization in L3 cache allocations.
37"cdpl2":
38	Enable code/data prioritization in L2 cache allocations.
39"mba_MBps":
40	Enable the MBA Software Controller(mba_sc) to specify MBA
41	bandwidth in MBps
42
43L2 and L3 CDP are controlled separately.
44
45RDT features are orthogonal. A particular system may support only
46monitoring, only control, or both monitoring and control.  Cache
47pseudo-locking is a unique way of using cache control to "pin" or
48"lock" data in the cache. Details can be found in
49"Cache Pseudo-Locking".
50
51
52The mount succeeds if either of allocation or monitoring is present, but
53only those files and directories supported by the system will be created.
54For more details on the behavior of the interface during monitoring
55and allocation, see the "Resource alloc and monitor groups" section.
56
57Info directory
58==============
59
60The 'info' directory contains information about the enabled
61resources. Each resource has its own subdirectory. The subdirectory
62names reflect the resource names.
63
64Each subdirectory contains the following files with respect to
65allocation:
66
67Cache resource(L3/L2)  subdirectory contains the following files
68related to allocation:
69
70"num_closids":
71		The number of CLOSIDs which are valid for this
72		resource. The kernel uses the smallest number of
73		CLOSIDs of all enabled resources as limit.
74"cbm_mask":
75		The bitmask which is valid for this resource.
76		This mask is equivalent to 100%.
77"min_cbm_bits":
78		The minimum number of consecutive bits which
79		must be set when writing a mask.
80
81"shareable_bits":
82		Bitmask of shareable resource with other executing
83		entities (e.g. I/O). User can use this when
84		setting up exclusive cache partitions. Note that
85		some platforms support devices that have their
86		own settings for cache use which can over-ride
87		these bits.
88"bit_usage":
89		Annotated capacity bitmasks showing how all
90		instances of the resource are used. The legend is:
91
92			"0":
93			      Corresponding region is unused. When the system's
94			      resources have been allocated and a "0" is found
95			      in "bit_usage" it is a sign that resources are
96			      wasted.
97
98			"H":
99			      Corresponding region is used by hardware only
100			      but available for software use. If a resource
101			      has bits set in "shareable_bits" but not all
102			      of these bits appear in the resource groups'
103			      schematas then the bits appearing in
104			      "shareable_bits" but no resource group will
105			      be marked as "H".
106			"X":
107			      Corresponding region is available for sharing and
108			      used by hardware and software. These are the
109			      bits that appear in "shareable_bits" as
110			      well as a resource group's allocation.
111			"S":
112			      Corresponding region is used by software
113			      and available for sharing.
114			"E":
115			      Corresponding region is used exclusively by
116			      one resource group. No sharing allowed.
117			"P":
118			      Corresponding region is pseudo-locked. No
119			      sharing allowed.
120
121Memory bandwidth(MB) subdirectory contains the following files
122with respect to allocation:
123
124"min_bandwidth":
125		The minimum memory bandwidth percentage which
126		user can request.
127
128"bandwidth_gran":
129		The granularity in which the memory bandwidth
130		percentage is allocated. The allocated
131		b/w percentage is rounded off to the next
132		control step available on the hardware. The
133		available bandwidth control steps are:
134		min_bandwidth + N * bandwidth_gran.
135
136"delay_linear":
137		Indicates if the delay scale is linear or
138		non-linear. This field is purely informational
139		only.
140
141"thread_throttle_mode":
142		Indicator on Intel systems of how tasks running on threads
143		of a physical core are throttled in cases where they
144		request different memory bandwidth percentages:
145
146		"max":
147			the smallest percentage is applied
148			to all threads
149		"per-thread":
150			bandwidth percentages are directly applied to
151			the threads running on the core
152
153If RDT monitoring is available there will be an "L3_MON" directory
154with the following files:
155
156"num_rmids":
157		The number of RMIDs available. This is the
158		upper bound for how many "CTRL_MON" + "MON"
159		groups can be created.
160
161"mon_features":
162		Lists the monitoring events if
163		monitoring is enabled for the resource.
164
165"max_threshold_occupancy":
166		Read/write file provides the largest value (in
167		bytes) at which a previously used LLC_occupancy
168		counter can be considered for re-use.
169
170Finally, in the top level of the "info" directory there is a file
171named "last_cmd_status". This is reset with every "command" issued
172via the file system (making new directories or writing to any of the
173control files). If the command was successful, it will read as "ok".
174If the command failed, it will provide more information that can be
175conveyed in the error returns from file operations. E.g.
176::
177
178	# echo L3:0=f7 > schemata
179	bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
180	# cat info/last_cmd_status
181	mask f7 has non-consecutive 1-bits
182
183Resource alloc and monitor groups
184=================================
185
186Resource groups are represented as directories in the resctrl file
187system.  The default group is the root directory which, immediately
188after mounting, owns all the tasks and cpus in the system and can make
189full use of all resources.
190
191On a system with RDT control features additional directories can be
192created in the root directory that specify different amounts of each
193resource (see "schemata" below). The root and these additional top level
194directories are referred to as "CTRL_MON" groups below.
195
196On a system with RDT monitoring the root directory and other top level
197directories contain a directory named "mon_groups" in which additional
198directories can be created to monitor subsets of tasks in the CTRL_MON
199group that is their ancestor. These are called "MON" groups in the rest
200of this document.
201
202Removing a directory will move all tasks and cpus owned by the group it
203represents to the parent. Removing one of the created CTRL_MON groups
204will automatically remove all MON groups below it.
205
206All groups contain the following files:
207
208"tasks":
209	Reading this file shows the list of all tasks that belong to
210	this group. Writing a task id to the file will add a task to the
211	group. If the group is a CTRL_MON group the task is removed from
212	whichever previous CTRL_MON group owned the task and also from
213	any MON group that owned the task. If the group is a MON group,
214	then the task must already belong to the CTRL_MON parent of this
215	group. The task is removed from any previous MON group.
216
217
218"cpus":
219	Reading this file shows a bitmask of the logical CPUs owned by
220	this group. Writing a mask to this file will add and remove
221	CPUs to/from this group. As with the tasks file a hierarchy is
222	maintained where MON groups may only include CPUs owned by the
223	parent CTRL_MON group.
224	When the resource group is in pseudo-locked mode this file will
225	only be readable, reflecting the CPUs associated with the
226	pseudo-locked region.
227
228
229"cpus_list":
230	Just like "cpus", only using ranges of CPUs instead of bitmasks.
231
232
233When control is enabled all CTRL_MON groups will also contain:
234
235"schemata":
236	A list of all the resources available to this group.
237	Each resource has its own line and format - see below for details.
238
239"size":
240	Mirrors the display of the "schemata" file to display the size in
241	bytes of each allocation instead of the bits representing the
242	allocation.
243
244"mode":
245	The "mode" of the resource group dictates the sharing of its
246	allocations. A "shareable" resource group allows sharing of its
247	allocations while an "exclusive" resource group does not. A
248	cache pseudo-locked region is created by first writing
249	"pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file before writing the cache
250	pseudo-locked region's schemata to the resource group's "schemata"
251	file. On successful pseudo-locked region creation the mode will
252	automatically change to "pseudo-locked".
253
254When monitoring is enabled all MON groups will also contain:
255
256"mon_data":
257	This contains a set of files organized by L3 domain and by
258	RDT event. E.g. on a system with two L3 domains there will
259	be subdirectories "mon_L3_00" and "mon_L3_01".	Each of these
260	directories have one file per event (e.g. "llc_occupancy",
261	"mbm_total_bytes", and "mbm_local_bytes"). In a MON group these
262	files provide a read out of the current value of the event for
263	all tasks in the group. In CTRL_MON groups these files provide
264	the sum for all tasks in the CTRL_MON group and all tasks in
265	MON groups. Please see example section for more details on usage.
266
267Resource allocation rules
268-------------------------
269
270When a task is running the following rules define which resources are
271available to it:
272
2731) If the task is a member of a non-default group, then the schemata
274   for that group is used.
275
2762) Else if the task belongs to the default group, but is running on a
277   CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the schemata for the
278   CPU's group is used.
279
2803) Otherwise the schemata for the default group is used.
281
282Resource monitoring rules
283-------------------------
2841) If a task is a member of a MON group, or non-default CTRL_MON group
285   then RDT events for the task will be reported in that group.
286
2872) If a task is a member of the default CTRL_MON group, but is running
288   on a CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the RDT events
289   for the task will be reported in that group.
290
2913) Otherwise RDT events for the task will be reported in the root level
292   "mon_data" group.
293
294
295Notes on cache occupancy monitoring and control
296===============================================
297When moving a task from one group to another you should remember that
298this only affects *new* cache allocations by the task. E.g. you may have
299a task in a monitor group showing 3 MB of cache occupancy. If you move
300to a new group and immediately check the occupancy of the old and new
301groups you will likely see that the old group is still showing 3 MB and
302the new group zero. When the task accesses locations still in cache from
303before the move, the h/w does not update any counters. On a busy system
304you will likely see the occupancy in the old group go down as cache lines
305are evicted and re-used while the occupancy in the new group rises as
306the task accesses memory and loads into the cache are counted based on
307membership in the new group.
308
309The same applies to cache allocation control. Moving a task to a group
310with a smaller cache partition will not evict any cache lines. The
311process may continue to use them from the old partition.
312
313Hardware uses CLOSid(Class of service ID) and an RMID(Resource monitoring ID)
314to identify a control group and a monitoring group respectively. Each of
315the resource groups are mapped to these IDs based on the kind of group. The
316number of CLOSid and RMID are limited by the hardware and hence the creation of
317a "CTRL_MON" directory may fail if we run out of either CLOSID or RMID
318and creation of "MON" group may fail if we run out of RMIDs.
319
320max_threshold_occupancy - generic concepts
321------------------------------------------
322
323Note that an RMID once freed may not be immediately available for use as
324the RMID is still tagged the cache lines of the previous user of RMID.
325Hence such RMIDs are placed on limbo list and checked back if the cache
326occupancy has gone down. If there is a time when system has a lot of
327limbo RMIDs but which are not ready to be used, user may see an -EBUSY
328during mkdir.
329
330max_threshold_occupancy is a user configurable value to determine the
331occupancy at which an RMID can be freed.
332
333Schemata files - general concepts
334---------------------------------
335Each line in the file describes one resource. The line starts with
336the name of the resource, followed by specific values to be applied
337in each of the instances of that resource on the system.
338
339Cache IDs
340---------
341On current generation systems there is one L3 cache per socket and L2
342caches are generally just shared by the hyperthreads on a core, but this
343isn't an architectural requirement. We could have multiple separate L3
344caches on a socket, multiple cores could share an L2 cache. So instead
345of using "socket" or "core" to define the set of logical cpus sharing
346a resource we use a "Cache ID". At a given cache level this will be a
347unique number across the whole system (but it isn't guaranteed to be a
348contiguous sequence, there may be gaps).  To find the ID for each logical
349CPU look in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/id
350
351Cache Bit Masks (CBM)
352---------------------
353For cache resources we describe the portion of the cache that is available
354for allocation using a bitmask. The maximum value of the mask is defined
355by each cpu model (and may be different for different cache levels). It
356is found using CPUID, but is also provided in the "info" directory of
357the resctrl file system in "info/{resource}/cbm_mask". Intel hardware
358requires that these masks have all the '1' bits in a contiguous block. So
3590x3, 0x6 and 0xC are legal 4-bit masks with two bits set, but 0x5, 0x9
360and 0xA are not.  On a system with a 20-bit mask each bit represents 5%
361of the capacity of the cache. You could partition the cache into four
362equal parts with masks: 0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00, 0xf8000.
363
364Memory bandwidth Allocation and monitoring
365==========================================
366
367For Memory bandwidth resource, by default the user controls the resource
368by indicating the percentage of total memory bandwidth.
369
370The minimum bandwidth percentage value for each cpu model is predefined
371and can be looked up through "info/MB/min_bandwidth". The bandwidth
372granularity that is allocated is also dependent on the cpu model and can
373be looked up at "info/MB/bandwidth_gran". The available bandwidth
374control steps are: min_bw + N * bw_gran. Intermediate values are rounded
375to the next control step available on the hardware.
376
377The bandwidth throttling is a core specific mechanism on some of Intel
378SKUs. Using a high bandwidth and a low bandwidth setting on two threads
379sharing a core may result in both threads being throttled to use the
380low bandwidth (see "thread_throttle_mode").
381
382The fact that Memory bandwidth allocation(MBA) may be a core
383specific mechanism where as memory bandwidth monitoring(MBM) is done at
384the package level may lead to confusion when users try to apply control
385via the MBA and then monitor the bandwidth to see if the controls are
386effective. Below are such scenarios:
387
3881. User may *not* see increase in actual bandwidth when percentage
389   values are increased:
390
391This can occur when aggregate L2 external bandwidth is more than L3
392external bandwidth. Consider an SKL SKU with 24 cores on a package and
393where L2 external  is 10GBps (hence aggregate L2 external bandwidth is
394240GBps) and L3 external bandwidth is 100GBps. Now a workload with '20
395threads, having 50% bandwidth, each consuming 5GBps' consumes the max L3
396bandwidth of 100GBps although the percentage value specified is only 50%
397<< 100%. Hence increasing the bandwidth percentage will not yield any
398more bandwidth. This is because although the L2 external bandwidth still
399has capacity, the L3 external bandwidth is fully used. Also note that
400this would be dependent on number of cores the benchmark is run on.
401
4022. Same bandwidth percentage may mean different actual bandwidth
403   depending on # of threads:
404
405For the same SKU in #1, a 'single thread, with 10% bandwidth' and '4
406thread, with 10% bandwidth' can consume upto 10GBps and 40GBps although
407they have same percentage bandwidth of 10%. This is simply because as
408threads start using more cores in an rdtgroup, the actual bandwidth may
409increase or vary although user specified bandwidth percentage is same.
410
411In order to mitigate this and make the interface more user friendly,
412resctrl added support for specifying the bandwidth in MBps as well.  The
413kernel underneath would use a software feedback mechanism or a "Software
414Controller(mba_sc)" which reads the actual bandwidth using MBM counters
415and adjust the memory bandwidth percentages to ensure::
416
417	"actual bandwidth < user specified bandwidth".
418
419By default, the schemata would take the bandwidth percentage values
420where as user can switch to the "MBA software controller" mode using
421a mount option 'mba_MBps'. The schemata format is specified in the below
422sections.
423
424L3 schemata file details (code and data prioritization disabled)
425----------------------------------------------------------------
426With CDP disabled the L3 schemata format is::
427
428	L3:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
429
430L3 schemata file details (CDP enabled via mount option to resctrl)
431------------------------------------------------------------------
432When CDP is enabled L3 control is split into two separate resources
433so you can specify independent masks for code and data like this::
434
435	L3DATA:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
436	L3CODE:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
437
438L2 schemata file details
439------------------------
440CDP is supported at L2 using the 'cdpl2' mount option. The schemata
441format is either::
442
443	L2:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
444
445or
446
447	L2DATA:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
448	L2CODE:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
449
450
451Memory bandwidth Allocation (default mode)
452------------------------------------------
453
454Memory b/w domain is L3 cache.
455::
456
457	MB:<cache_id0>=bandwidth0;<cache_id1>=bandwidth1;...
458
459Memory bandwidth Allocation specified in MBps
460---------------------------------------------
461
462Memory bandwidth domain is L3 cache.
463::
464
465	MB:<cache_id0>=bw_MBps0;<cache_id1>=bw_MBps1;...
466
467Reading/writing the schemata file
468---------------------------------
469Reading the schemata file will show the state of all resources
470on all domains. When writing you only need to specify those values
471which you wish to change.  E.g.
472::
473
474  # cat schemata
475  L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
476  L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
477  # echo "L3DATA:2=3c0;" > schemata
478  # cat schemata
479  L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=3c0;3=fffff
480  L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
481
482Cache Pseudo-Locking
483====================
484CAT enables a user to specify the amount of cache space that an
485application can fill. Cache pseudo-locking builds on the fact that a
486CPU can still read and write data pre-allocated outside its current
487allocated area on a cache hit. With cache pseudo-locking, data can be
488preloaded into a reserved portion of cache that no application can
489fill, and from that point on will only serve cache hits. The cache
490pseudo-locked memory is made accessible to user space where an
491application can map it into its virtual address space and thus have
492a region of memory with reduced average read latency.
493
494The creation of a cache pseudo-locked region is triggered by a request
495from the user to do so that is accompanied by a schemata of the region
496to be pseudo-locked. The cache pseudo-locked region is created as follows:
497
498- Create a CAT allocation CLOSNEW with a CBM matching the schemata
499  from the user of the cache region that will contain the pseudo-locked
500  memory. This region must not overlap with any current CAT allocation/CLOS
501  on the system and no future overlap with this cache region is allowed
502  while the pseudo-locked region exists.
503- Create a contiguous region of memory of the same size as the cache
504  region.
505- Flush the cache, disable hardware prefetchers, disable preemption.
506- Make CLOSNEW the active CLOS and touch the allocated memory to load
507  it into the cache.
508- Set the previous CLOS as active.
509- At this point the closid CLOSNEW can be released - the cache
510  pseudo-locked region is protected as long as its CBM does not appear in
511  any CAT allocation. Even though the cache pseudo-locked region will from
512  this point on not appear in any CBM of any CLOS an application running with
513  any CLOS will be able to access the memory in the pseudo-locked region since
514  the region continues to serve cache hits.
515- The contiguous region of memory loaded into the cache is exposed to
516  user-space as a character device.
517
518Cache pseudo-locking increases the probability that data will remain
519in the cache via carefully configuring the CAT feature and controlling
520application behavior. There is no guarantee that data is placed in
521cache. Instructions like INVD, WBINVD, CLFLUSH, etc. can still evict
522“locked” data from cache. Power management C-states may shrink or
523power off cache. Deeper C-states will automatically be restricted on
524pseudo-locked region creation.
525
526It is required that an application using a pseudo-locked region runs
527with affinity to the cores (or a subset of the cores) associated
528with the cache on which the pseudo-locked region resides. A sanity check
529within the code will not allow an application to map pseudo-locked memory
530unless it runs with affinity to cores associated with the cache on which the
531pseudo-locked region resides. The sanity check is only done during the
532initial mmap() handling, there is no enforcement afterwards and the
533application self needs to ensure it remains affine to the correct cores.
534
535Pseudo-locking is accomplished in two stages:
536
5371) During the first stage the system administrator allocates a portion
538   of cache that should be dedicated to pseudo-locking. At this time an
539   equivalent portion of memory is allocated, loaded into allocated
540   cache portion, and exposed as a character device.
5412) During the second stage a user-space application maps (mmap()) the
542   pseudo-locked memory into its address space.
543
544Cache Pseudo-Locking Interface
545------------------------------
546A pseudo-locked region is created using the resctrl interface as follows:
547
5481) Create a new resource group by creating a new directory in /sys/fs/resctrl.
5492) Change the new resource group's mode to "pseudo-locksetup" by writing
550   "pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file.
5513) Write the schemata of the pseudo-locked region to the "schemata" file. All
552   bits within the schemata should be "unused" according to the "bit_usage"
553   file.
554
555On successful pseudo-locked region creation the "mode" file will contain
556"pseudo-locked" and a new character device with the same name as the resource
557group will exist in /dev/pseudo_lock. This character device can be mmap()'ed
558by user space in order to obtain access to the pseudo-locked memory region.
559
560An example of cache pseudo-locked region creation and usage can be found below.
561
562Cache Pseudo-Locking Debugging Interface
563----------------------------------------
564The pseudo-locking debugging interface is enabled by default (if
565CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled) and can be found in /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl.
566
567There is no explicit way for the kernel to test if a provided memory
568location is present in the cache. The pseudo-locking debugging interface uses
569the tracing infrastructure to provide two ways to measure cache residency of
570the pseudo-locked region:
571
5721) Memory access latency using the pseudo_lock_mem_latency tracepoint. Data
573   from these measurements are best visualized using a hist trigger (see
574   example below). In this test the pseudo-locked region is traversed at
575   a stride of 32 bytes while hardware prefetchers and preemption
576   are disabled. This also provides a substitute visualization of cache
577   hits and misses.
5782) Cache hit and miss measurements using model specific precision counters if
579   available. Depending on the levels of cache on the system the pseudo_lock_l2
580   and pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoints are available.
581
582When a pseudo-locked region is created a new debugfs directory is created for
583it in debugfs as /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/<newdir>. A single
584write-only file, pseudo_lock_measure, is present in this directory. The
585measurement of the pseudo-locked region depends on the number written to this
586debugfs file:
587
5881:
589     writing "1" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the latency
590     measurement captured in the pseudo_lock_mem_latency tracepoint. See
591     example below.
5922:
593     writing "2" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the L2 cache
594     residency (cache hits and misses) measurement captured in the
595     pseudo_lock_l2 tracepoint. See example below.
5963:
597     writing "3" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the L3 cache
598     residency (cache hits and misses) measurement captured in the
599     pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoint.
600
601All measurements are recorded with the tracing infrastructure. This requires
602the relevant tracepoints to be enabled before the measurement is triggered.
603
604Example of latency debugging interface
605~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
606In this example a pseudo-locked region named "newlock" was created. Here is
607how we can measure the latency in cycles of reading from this region and
608visualize this data with a histogram that is available if CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
609is set::
610
611  # :> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
612  # echo 'hist:keys=latency' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/trigger
613  # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable
614  # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/newlock/pseudo_lock_measure
615  # echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable
616  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/hist
617
618  # event histogram
619  #
620  # trigger info: hist:keys=latency:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active]
621  #
622
623  { latency:        456 } hitcount:          1
624  { latency:         50 } hitcount:         83
625  { latency:         36 } hitcount:         96
626  { latency:         44 } hitcount:        174
627  { latency:         48 } hitcount:        195
628  { latency:         46 } hitcount:        262
629  { latency:         42 } hitcount:        693
630  { latency:         40 } hitcount:       3204
631  { latency:         38 } hitcount:       3484
632
633  Totals:
634      Hits: 8192
635      Entries: 9
636    Dropped: 0
637
638Example of cache hits/misses debugging
639~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
640In this example a pseudo-locked region named "newlock" was created on the L2
641cache of a platform. Here is how we can obtain details of the cache hits
642and misses using the platform's precision counters.
643::
644
645  # :> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
646  # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable
647  # echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/newlock/pseudo_lock_measure
648  # echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable
649  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
650
651  # tracer: nop
652  #
653  #                              _-----=> irqs-off
654  #                             / _----=> need-resched
655  #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
656  #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
657  #                            ||| /     delay
658  #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
659  #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
660  pseudo_lock_mea-1672  [002] ....  3132.860500: pseudo_lock_l2: hits=4097 miss=0
661
662
663Examples for RDT allocation usage
664~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
665
6661) Example 1
667
668On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits
669for cache bit masks, minimum b/w of 10% with a memory bandwidth
670granularity of 10%.
671::
672
673  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
674  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
675  # mkdir p0 p1
676  # echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
677  # echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
678
679The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts
680of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f").
681
682Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the
683"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1.
684Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets.
685
686Similarly, tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may use a
687maximum memory b/w of 50% on socket0 and 50% on socket 1.
688Tasks in group "p1" may also use 50% memory b/w on both sockets.
689Note that unlike cache masks, memory b/w cannot specify whether these
690allocations can overlap or not. The allocations specifies the maximum
691b/w that the group may be able to use and the system admin can configure
692the b/w accordingly.
693
694If resctrl is using the software controller (mba_sc) then user can enter the
695max b/w in MB rather than the percentage values.
696::
697
698  # echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
699  # echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
700
701In the above example the tasks in "p1" and "p0" on socket 0 would use a max b/w
702of 1024MB where as on socket 1 they would use 500MB.
703
7042) Example 2
705
706Again two sockets, but this time with a more realistic 20-bit mask.
707
708Two real time tasks pid=1234 running on processor 0 and pid=5678 running on
709processor 1 on socket 0 on a 2-socket and dual core machine. To avoid noisy
710neighbors, each of the two real-time tasks exclusively occupies one quarter
711of L3 cache on socket 0.
712::
713
714  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
715  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
716
717First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper"
71850% of the L3 cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory b/w cannot be used by
719ordinary tasks::
720
721  # echo "L3:0=3ff;1=fffff\nMB:0=50;1=100" > schemata
722
723Next we make a resource group for our first real time task and give
724it access to the "top" 25% of the cache on socket 0.
725::
726
727  # mkdir p0
728  # echo "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff" > p0/schemata
729
730Finally we move our first real time task into this resource group. We
731also use taskset(1) to ensure the task always runs on a dedicated CPU
732on socket 0. Most uses of resource groups will also constrain which
733processors tasks run on.
734::
735
736  # echo 1234 > p0/tasks
737  # taskset -cp 1 1234
738
739Ditto for the second real time task (with the remaining 25% of cache)::
740
741  # mkdir p1
742  # echo "L3:0=7c00;1=fffff" > p1/schemata
743  # echo 5678 > p1/tasks
744  # taskset -cp 2 5678
745
746For the same 2 socket system with memory b/w resource and CAT L3 the
747schemata would look like(Assume min_bandwidth 10 and bandwidth_gran is
74810):
749
750For our first real time task this would request 20% memory b/w on socket 0.
751::
752
753  # echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata
754
755For our second real time task this would request an other 20% memory b/w
756on socket 0.
757::
758
759  # echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata
760
7613) Example 3
762
763A single socket system which has real-time tasks running on core 4-7 and
764non real-time workload assigned to core 0-3. The real-time tasks share text
765and data, so a per task association is not required and due to interaction
766with the kernel it's desired that the kernel on these cores shares L3 with
767the tasks.
768::
769
770  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
771  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
772
773First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper"
77450% of the L3 cache on socket 0, and 50% of memory bandwidth on socket 0
775cannot be used by ordinary tasks::
776
777  # echo "L3:0=3ff\nMB:0=50" > schemata
778
779Next we make a resource group for our real time cores and give it access
780to the "top" 50% of the cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory bandwidth on
781socket 0.
782::
783
784  # mkdir p0
785  # echo "L3:0=ffc00\nMB:0=50" > p0/schemata
786
787Finally we move core 4-7 over to the new group and make sure that the
788kernel and the tasks running there get 50% of the cache. They should
789also get 50% of memory bandwidth assuming that the cores 4-7 are SMT
790siblings and only the real time threads are scheduled on the cores 4-7.
791::
792
793  # echo F0 > p0/cpus
794
7954) Example 4
796
797The resource groups in previous examples were all in the default "shareable"
798mode allowing sharing of their cache allocations. If one resource group
799configures a cache allocation then nothing prevents another resource group
800to overlap with that allocation.
801
802In this example a new exclusive resource group will be created on a L2 CAT
803system with two L2 cache instances that can be configured with an 8-bit
804capacity bitmask. The new exclusive resource group will be configured to use
80525% of each cache instance.
806::
807
808  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl/
809  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
810
811First, we observe that the default group is configured to allocate to all L2
812cache::
813
814  # cat schemata
815  L2:0=ff;1=ff
816
817We could attempt to create the new resource group at this point, but it will
818fail because of the overlap with the schemata of the default group::
819
820  # mkdir p0
821  # echo 'L2:0=0x3;1=0x3' > p0/schemata
822  # cat p0/mode
823  shareable
824  # echo exclusive > p0/mode
825  -sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
826  # cat info/last_cmd_status
827  schemata overlaps
828
829To ensure that there is no overlap with another resource group the default
830resource group's schemata has to change, making it possible for the new
831resource group to become exclusive.
832::
833
834  # echo 'L2:0=0xfc;1=0xfc' > schemata
835  # echo exclusive > p0/mode
836  # grep . p0/*
837  p0/cpus:0
838  p0/mode:exclusive
839  p0/schemata:L2:0=03;1=03
840  p0/size:L2:0=262144;1=262144
841
842A new resource group will on creation not overlap with an exclusive resource
843group::
844
845  # mkdir p1
846  # grep . p1/*
847  p1/cpus:0
848  p1/mode:shareable
849  p1/schemata:L2:0=fc;1=fc
850  p1/size:L2:0=786432;1=786432
851
852The bit_usage will reflect how the cache is used::
853
854  # cat info/L2/bit_usage
855  0=SSSSSSEE;1=SSSSSSEE
856
857A resource group cannot be forced to overlap with an exclusive resource group::
858
859  # echo 'L2:0=0x1;1=0x1' > p1/schemata
860  -sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
861  # cat info/last_cmd_status
862  overlaps with exclusive group
863
864Example of Cache Pseudo-Locking
865~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
866Lock portion of L2 cache from cache id 1 using CBM 0x3. Pseudo-locked
867region is exposed at /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock that can be provided to
868application for argument to mmap().
869::
870
871  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl/
872  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
873
874Ensure that there are bits available that can be pseudo-locked, since only
875unused bits can be pseudo-locked the bits to be pseudo-locked needs to be
876removed from the default resource group's schemata::
877
878  # cat info/L2/bit_usage
879  0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSSS
880  # echo 'L2:1=0xfc' > schemata
881  # cat info/L2/bit_usage
882  0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSS00
883
884Create a new resource group that will be associated with the pseudo-locked
885region, indicate that it will be used for a pseudo-locked region, and
886configure the requested pseudo-locked region capacity bitmask::
887
888  # mkdir newlock
889  # echo pseudo-locksetup > newlock/mode
890  # echo 'L2:1=0x3' > newlock/schemata
891
892On success the resource group's mode will change to pseudo-locked, the
893bit_usage will reflect the pseudo-locked region, and the character device
894exposing the pseudo-locked region will exist::
895
896  # cat newlock/mode
897  pseudo-locked
898  # cat info/L2/bit_usage
899  0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSPP
900  # ls -l /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock
901  crw------- 1 root root 243, 0 Apr  3 05:01 /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock
902
903::
904
905  /*
906  * Example code to access one page of pseudo-locked cache region
907  * from user space.
908  */
909  #define _GNU_SOURCE
910  #include <fcntl.h>
911  #include <sched.h>
912  #include <stdio.h>
913  #include <stdlib.h>
914  #include <unistd.h>
915  #include <sys/mman.h>
916
917  /*
918  * It is required that the application runs with affinity to only
919  * cores associated with the pseudo-locked region. Here the cpu
920  * is hardcoded for convenience of example.
921  */
922  static int cpuid = 2;
923
924  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
925  {
926    cpu_set_t cpuset;
927    long page_size;
928    void *mapping;
929    int dev_fd;
930    int ret;
931
932    page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
933
934    CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
935    CPU_SET(cpuid, &cpuset);
936    ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset);
937    if (ret < 0) {
938      perror("sched_setaffinity");
939      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
940    }
941
942    dev_fd = open("/dev/pseudo_lock/newlock", O_RDWR);
943    if (dev_fd < 0) {
944      perror("open");
945      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
946    }
947
948    mapping = mmap(0, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
949            dev_fd, 0);
950    if (mapping == MAP_FAILED) {
951      perror("mmap");
952      close(dev_fd);
953      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
954    }
955
956    /* Application interacts with pseudo-locked memory @mapping */
957
958    ret = munmap(mapping, page_size);
959    if (ret < 0) {
960      perror("munmap");
961      close(dev_fd);
962      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
963    }
964
965    close(dev_fd);
966    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
967  }
968
969Locking between applications
970----------------------------
971
972Certain operations on the resctrl filesystem, composed of read/writes
973to/from multiple files, must be atomic.
974
975As an example, the allocation of an exclusive reservation of L3 cache
976involves:
977
978  1. Read the cbmmasks from each directory or the per-resource "bit_usage"
979  2. Find a contiguous set of bits in the global CBM bitmask that is clear
980     in any of the directory cbmmasks
981  3. Create a new directory
982  4. Set the bits found in step 2 to the new directory "schemata" file
983
984If two applications attempt to allocate space concurrently then they can
985end up allocating the same bits so the reservations are shared instead of
986exclusive.
987
988To coordinate atomic operations on the resctrlfs and to avoid the problem
989above, the following locking procedure is recommended:
990
991Locking is based on flock, which is available in libc and also as a shell
992script command
993
994Write lock:
995
996 A) Take flock(LOCK_EX) on /sys/fs/resctrl
997 B) Read/write the directory structure.
998 C) funlock
999
1000Read lock:
1001
1002 A) Take flock(LOCK_SH) on /sys/fs/resctrl
1003 B) If success read the directory structure.
1004 C) funlock
1005
1006Example with bash::
1007
1008  # Atomically read directory structure
1009  $ flock -s /sys/fs/resctrl/ find /sys/fs/resctrl
1010
1011  # Read directory contents and create new subdirectory
1012
1013  $ cat create-dir.sh
1014  find /sys/fs/resctrl/ > output.txt
1015  mask = function-of(output.txt)
1016  mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/
1017  echo mask > /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/schemata
1018
1019  $ flock /sys/fs/resctrl/ ./create-dir.sh
1020
1021Example with C::
1022
1023  /*
1024  * Example code do take advisory locks
1025  * before accessing resctrl filesystem
1026  */
1027  #include <sys/file.h>
1028  #include <stdlib.h>
1029
1030  void resctrl_take_shared_lock(int fd)
1031  {
1032    int ret;
1033
1034    /* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */
1035    ret = flock(fd, LOCK_SH);
1036    if (ret) {
1037      perror("flock");
1038      exit(-1);
1039    }
1040  }
1041
1042  void resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(int fd)
1043  {
1044    int ret;
1045
1046    /* release lock on resctrl filesystem */
1047    ret = flock(fd, LOCK_EX);
1048    if (ret) {
1049      perror("flock");
1050      exit(-1);
1051    }
1052  }
1053
1054  void resctrl_release_lock(int fd)
1055  {
1056    int ret;
1057
1058    /* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */
1059    ret = flock(fd, LOCK_UN);
1060    if (ret) {
1061      perror("flock");
1062      exit(-1);
1063    }
1064  }
1065
1066  void main(void)
1067  {
1068    int fd, ret;
1069
1070    fd = open("/sys/fs/resctrl", O_DIRECTORY);
1071    if (fd == -1) {
1072      perror("open");
1073      exit(-1);
1074    }
1075    resctrl_take_shared_lock(fd);
1076    /* code to read directory contents */
1077    resctrl_release_lock(fd);
1078
1079    resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(fd);
1080    /* code to read and write directory contents */
1081    resctrl_release_lock(fd);
1082  }
1083
1084Examples for RDT Monitoring along with allocation usage
1085=======================================================
1086Reading monitored data
1087----------------------
1088Reading an event file (for ex: mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy) would
1089show the current snapshot of LLC occupancy of the corresponding MON
1090group or CTRL_MON group.
1091
1092
1093Example 1 (Monitor CTRL_MON group and subset of tasks in CTRL_MON group)
1094------------------------------------------------------------------------
1095On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits
1096for cache bit masks::
1097
1098  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
1099  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1100  # mkdir p0 p1
1101  # echo "L3:0=3;1=c" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
1102  # echo "L3:0=3;1=3" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
1103  # echo 5678 > p1/tasks
1104  # echo 5679 > p1/tasks
1105
1106The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts
1107of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f").
1108
1109Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the
1110"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1.
1111Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets.
1112
1113Create monitor groups and assign a subset of tasks to each monitor group.
1114::
1115
1116  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_groups
1117  # mkdir m11 m12
1118  # echo 5678 > m11/tasks
1119  # echo 5679 > m12/tasks
1120
1121fetch data (data shown in bytes)
1122::
1123
1124  # cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1125  16234000
1126  # cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
1127  14789000
1128  # cat m12/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1129  16789000
1130
1131The parent ctrl_mon group shows the aggregated data.
1132::
1133
1134  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_l3_00/llc_occupancy
1135  31234000
1136
1137Example 2 (Monitor a task from its creation)
1138--------------------------------------------
1139On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket)::
1140
1141  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
1142  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1143  # mkdir p0 p1
1144
1145An RMID is allocated to the group once its created and hence the <cmd>
1146below is monitored from its creation.
1147::
1148
1149  # echo $$ > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/tasks
1150  # <cmd>
1151
1152Fetch the data::
1153
1154  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_l3_00/llc_occupancy
1155  31789000
1156
1157Example 3 (Monitor without CAT support or before creating CAT groups)
1158---------------------------------------------------------------------
1159
1160Assume a system like HSW has only CQM and no CAT support. In this case
1161the resctrl will still mount but cannot create CTRL_MON directories.
1162But user can create different MON groups within the root group thereby
1163able to monitor all tasks including kernel threads.
1164
1165This can also be used to profile jobs cache size footprint before being
1166able to allocate them to different allocation groups.
1167::
1168
1169  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
1170  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1171  # mkdir mon_groups/m01
1172  # mkdir mon_groups/m02
1173
1174  # echo 3478 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/tasks
1175  # echo 2467 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/tasks
1176
1177Monitor the groups separately and also get per domain data. From the
1178below its apparent that the tasks are mostly doing work on
1179domain(socket) 0.
1180::
1181
1182  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1183  31234000
1184  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
1185  34555
1186  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1187  31234000
1188  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
1189  32789
1190
1191
1192Example 4 (Monitor real time tasks)
1193-----------------------------------
1194
1195A single socket system which has real time tasks running on cores 4-7
1196and non real time tasks on other cpus. We want to monitor the cache
1197occupancy of the real time threads on these cores.
1198::
1199
1200  # mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
1201  # cd /sys/fs/resctrl
1202  # mkdir p1
1203
1204Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1::
1205
1206  # echo f0 > p1/cpus
1207
1208View the llc occupancy snapshot::
1209
1210  # cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
1211  11234000
1212
1213Intel RDT Errata
1214================
1215
1216Intel MBM Counters May Report System Memory Bandwidth Incorrectly
1217-----------------------------------------------------------------
1218
1219Errata SKX99 for Skylake server and BDF102 for Broadwell server.
1220
1221Problem: Intel Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) counters track metrics
1222according to the assigned Resource Monitor ID (RMID) for that logical
1223core. The IA32_QM_CTR register (MSR 0xC8E), used to report these
1224metrics, may report incorrect system bandwidth for certain RMID values.
1225
1226Implication: Due to the errata, system memory bandwidth may not match
1227what is reported.
1228
1229Workaround: MBM total and local readings are corrected according to the
1230following correction factor table:
1231
1232+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1233|core count	|rmid count	|rmid threshold	|correction factor|
1234+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1235|1		|8		|0		|1.000000	  |
1236+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1237|2		|16		|0		|1.000000	  |
1238+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1239|3		|24		|15		|0.969650	  |
1240+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1241|4		|32		|0		|1.000000	  |
1242+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1243|6		|48		|31		|0.969650	  |
1244+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1245|7		|56		|47		|1.142857	  |
1246+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1247|8		|64		|0		|1.000000	  |
1248+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1249|9		|72		|63		|1.185115	  |
1250+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1251|10		|80		|63		|1.066553	  |
1252+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1253|11		|88		|79		|1.454545	  |
1254+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1255|12		|96		|0		|1.000000	  |
1256+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1257|13		|104		|95		|1.230769	  |
1258+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1259|14		|112		|95		|1.142857	  |
1260+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1261|15		|120		|95		|1.066667	  |
1262+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1263|16		|128		|0		|1.000000	  |
1264+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1265|17		|136		|127		|1.254863	  |
1266+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1267|18		|144		|127		|1.185255	  |
1268+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1269|19		|152		|0		|1.000000	  |
1270+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1271|20		|160		|127		|1.066667	  |
1272+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1273|21		|168		|0		|1.000000	  |
1274+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1275|22		|176		|159		|1.454334	  |
1276+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1277|23		|184		|0		|1.000000	  |
1278+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1279|24		|192		|127		|0.969744	  |
1280+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1281|25		|200		|191		|1.280246	  |
1282+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1283|26		|208		|191		|1.230921	  |
1284+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1285|27		|216		|0		|1.000000	  |
1286+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1287|28		|224		|191		|1.143118	  |
1288+---------------+---------------+---------------+-----------------+
1289
1290If rmid > rmid threshold, MBM total and local values should be multiplied
1291by the correction factor.
1292
1293See:
1294
12951. Erratum SKX99 in Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family Specification Update:
1296http://web.archive.org/web/20200716124958/https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/scalable/xeon-scalable-spec-update.html
1297
12982. Erratum BDF102 in Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 Processor Product Family Specification Update:
1299http://web.archive.org/web/20191125200531/https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-e5-v4-spec-update.pdf
1300
13013. The errata in Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) on 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Reference Manual:
1302https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/intel-resource-director-technology-rdt-reference-manual.html
1303
1304for further information.
1305