• Babu Moger's avatar
    Documentation/x86: Update resctrl.rst for new features · 0a363fb2
    Babu Moger authored
    Update the documentation for the new features:
    
    1. Slow Memory Bandwidth allocation (SMBA).
    
       With this feature, the QOS enforcement policies can be applied to the
       external slow memory connected to the host. QOS enforcement is accomplished
       by assigning a Class Of Service (COS) to a processor and specifying
       allocations or limits for that COS for each resource to be allocated.
    
    2. Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration (BMEC).
    
       The bandwidth monitoring events mbm_total_bytes and mbm_local_bytes are set
       to count all the total and local reads/writes respectively.  With the
       introduction of slow memory, the two counters are not enough to count all the
       different types of memory events. With the feature BMEC, the users have the
       option to configure mbm_total_bytes and mbm_local_bytes to count the specific
       type of events.
    
    Also add configuration instructions with examples.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBabu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230113152039.770054-14-babu.moger@amd.com
    0a363fb2
resctrl.rst 52 KB