Change a few printed messages to report test progress more clearly.
Add a missing "\n" at the end of one printed message.
Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
There could be two reasons why a resctrl feature might not be enabled on
the platform
1. H/W might not support the feature
2. Even if the H/W supports it, the user might have disabled the feature
through kernel command line arguments
Hence, any resctrl unit test (like cmt, cat, mbm and mba) before starting
the test will first check if the feature is enabled on the platform or not.
If the feature isn't enabled, then the test returns with an error status.
For example, if MBA isn't supported on a platform and if the user tries to
run MBA, the output will look like this
ok mounting resctrl to "/sys/fs/resctrl"
not ok MBA: schemata change
But, not supporting a feature isn't a test failure. So, instead of treating
it as an error, use the SKIP directive of the TAP protocol. With the
change, the output will look as below
ok MBA # SKIP Hardware does not support MBA or MBA is disabled
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
MBM unit test starts fill_buf (default built-in benchmark) in a new con_mon
group (c1, m1) and records resctrl reported mbm values and iMC (Integrated
Memory Controller) values every second. It does this for five seconds
(randomly chosen value) in total. It then calculates average of resctrl_mbm
values and imc_mbm values and if the difference is greater than 300 MB/sec
(randomly chosen value), the test treats it as a failure. MBA unit test is
similar to MBM but after every run it changes schemata.
Checking for a difference of 300 MB/sec doesn't look very meaningful when
the mbm values are changing over a wide range. For example, below are the
values running MBA test on SKL with different allocations
1. With 10% as schemata both iMC and resctrl mbm_values are around 2000
MB/sec
2. With 100% as schemata both iMC and resctrl mbm_values are around 10000
MB/sec
A 300 MB/sec difference between resctrl_mbm and imc_mbm values is
acceptable at 100% schemata but it isn't acceptable at 10% schemata because
that's a huge difference.
So, fix this by checking for percentage difference instead of absolute
difference i.e. check if the difference between resctrl_mbm value and
imc_mbm value is within 5% (randomly chosen value) of imc_mbm value. If the
difference is greater than 5% of imc_mbm value, treat it is a failure.
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Checking resctrl features call strcmp() to compare feature strings
(e.g. "mba", "cat" etc). The checkings are error prone and don't have
good coding style. Define the constant strings in macros and call
strncmp() to solve the potential issues.
Suggested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) test starts a stressful memory
bandwidth benchmark and allocates memory bandwidth from 100% down
to 10% for the benchmark process. For each allocation, compare
perf IMC counter and mbm total bytes from resctrl. The difference
between the two values should be within a threshold to pass the test.
Default benchmark is built-in fill_buf. But users can specify their
own benchmark by option "-b".
We can add memory bandwidth allocation for multiple processes in the
future.
Co-developed-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Fenghua Yu