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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] perf/x86/intel: Perform rotation on Intel CQM RMIDs
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 13:16:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150107121617.GF25325@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415999712-5850-11-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 09:15:11PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
 +	/*
> +	 * A reasonable upper limit on the max threshold is the number
> +	 * of lines tagged per RMID if all RMIDs have the same number of
> +	 * lines tagged in the LLC.
> +	 *
> +	 * For a 35MB LLC and 56 RMIDs, this is ~1.8% of the LLC.
> +	 */
> +	__intel_cqm_max_threshold =
> +		boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_size * 1024 / (cqm_max_rmid + 1);

Seeing how a percentage is without unit, the 35MB figure seems
pointless.

Also, why would a flat distribution be a good measure for 'empty'? I
would think that would in fact constitute in use.

Should we make this 1/16th of this figure or any other random fraction <
1 ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-07 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14 21:15 [PATCH v4 00/11] perf: Intel Cache QoS Monitoring support Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 01/11] perf tools: Parse event per-package info files Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 02/11] perf tools: Implement snapshot event file logic Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 03/11] perf: Make perf_cgroup_from_task() global Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 04/11] perf: Add ->count() function to read per-package counters Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 05/11] perf: Move cgroup init before PMU ->event_init() Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86: Add support for Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) detection Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 07/11] perf/x86/intel: Add Intel Cache QoS Monitoring support Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 08/11] perf/x86/intel: Implement LRU monitoring ID allocation for CQM Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] perf/x86/intel: Support task events with Intel CQM Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] perf/x86/intel: Perform rotation on Intel CQM RMIDs Matt Fleming
2015-01-06 16:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-06 17:17   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-09 12:14     ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-09 13:02       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-09 15:24         ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-09 15:58           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-15 15:31             ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-15 19:37             ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-06 17:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-09 12:22     ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-09 12:59       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-07 12:16   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-01-09 12:55     ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-09 12:58       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-11 10:45         ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-14 21:15 ` [PATCH 11/11] perf/x86/intel: Enable conflicting event scheduling for CQM Matt Fleming
2015-01-08 11:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-09 12:56     ` Matt Fleming
2015-01-08 11:51   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-01-09 14:27     ` Matt Fleming
2014-11-25 14:55 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] perf: Intel Cache QoS Monitoring support Matt Fleming
2014-12-18  7:59   ` Matt Fleming

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