Re: [PATCH v15 00/12] Build ACPI Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT)

[Tao Xu <tao3.xu@intel.com>]

On 11/7/2019 5:03 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 03:44:59PM +0800, Tao Xu wrote:
>> This series of patches will build Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table (HMAT)
>> according to the command line. The ACPI HMAT describes the memory attributes,
>> such as memory side cache attributes and bandwidth and latency details,
>> related to the Memory Proximity Domain.
>> The software is expected to use HMAT information as hint for optimization.
>>
>> In the linux kernel, the codes in drivers/acpi/hmat/hmat.c parse and report
>> the platform's HMAT tables.
> 
> 
> ok this looks good to me.
> Given we are in freeze, please ping me after the release to merge this.
> 

Thank you very much!
>> The V14 patches link:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/11214887/
>>
>> Changelog:
>> v15:
>>      - Add a new patch to refactor do_strtosz() (Eduardo)
>>      - Make tests without breaking CI (Michael)
>> v14:
>>      - Reuse the codes of do_strtosz to build qemu_strtotime_ns
>>        (Eduardo)
>>      - Squash patch v13 01/12 and 02/12 together (Daniel and Eduardo)
>>      - Drop time unit picosecond (Eric)
>>      - Use qemu ctz64 and clz64 instead of builtin function
>> v13:
>>      - Modify some text description
>>      - Drop "initiator_valid" field in struct NodeInfo
>>      - Reuse Garray to store the raw bandwidth and bandwidth data
>>      - Calculate common base unit using range bitmap
>>      - Add a patch to alculate hmat latency and bandwidth entry list
>>      - Drop the total_levels option and use readable cache size
>>      - Remove the unnecessary head file
>>      - Use decimal notation with appropriate suffix for cache size
>> v12:
>>      - Fix a bug that a memory-only node without initiator setting
>>        doesn't report error. (reported by Danmei Wei)
>>      - Fix a bug that if HMAT is enabled and without hmat-lb setting,
>>        QEMU will crash. (reported by Danmei Wei)
>> v11:
>>      - Move numa option patches forward.
>>      - Add num_initiator in Numa_state to record the number of
>>      initiators.
>>      - Simplify struct HMAT_LB_Info, use uint64_t array to store data.
>>      - Drop hmat_get_base().
>>      - Calculate base in build_hmat_lb().
>> v10:
>>      - Add qemu_strtotime_ps() to convert strings with time suffixes
>>      to numbers, and add some tests for it.
>>      - Add qapi buildin type time, and add some tests for it.
>>      - Add machine oprion properties "-machine hmat=on|off" for enabling
>>      or disabling HMAT in QEMU.
>>
>> Liu Jingqi (5):
>>    numa: Extend CLI to provide memory latency and bandwidth information
>>    numa: Extend CLI to provide memory side cache information
>>    hmat acpi: Build Memory Proximity Domain Attributes Structure(s)
>>    hmat acpi: Build System Locality Latency and Bandwidth Information
>>      Structure(s)
>>    hmat acpi: Build Memory Side Cache Information Structure(s)
>>
>> Tao Xu (7):
>>    util/cutils: refactor do_strtosz() to support suffixes list
>>    util/cutils: Add qemu_strtotime_ns()
>>    qapi: Add builtin type time
>>    tests: Add test for QAPI builtin type time
>>    numa: Extend CLI to provide initiator information for numa nodes
>>    numa: Calculate hmat latency and bandwidth entry list
>>    tests/bios-tables-test: add test cases for ACPI HMAT
>>
>>   hw/acpi/Kconfig                       |   7 +-
>>   hw/acpi/Makefile.objs                 |   1 +
>>   hw/acpi/hmat.c                        | 263 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   hw/acpi/hmat.h                        |  42 ++++
>>   hw/core/machine.c                     |  64 ++++++
>>   hw/core/numa.c                        | 284 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   hw/i386/acpi-build.c                  |   5 +
>>   include/qapi/visitor-impl.h           |   4 +
>>   include/qapi/visitor.h                |   8 +
>>   include/qemu/cutils.h                 |   1 +
>>   include/sysemu/numa.h                 | 104 ++++++++++
>>   qapi/machine.json                     | 178 +++++++++++++++-
>>   qapi/opts-visitor.c                   |  22 ++
>>   qapi/qapi-visit-core.c                |  12 ++
>>   qapi/qobject-input-visitor.c          |  18 ++
>>   qapi/trace-events                     |   1 +
>>   qemu-options.hx                       |  96 ++++++++-
>>   scripts/qapi/schema.py                |   1 +
>>   tests/bios-tables-test-allowed-diff.h |   8 +
>>   tests/bios-tables-test.c              |  44 ++++
>>   tests/data/acpi/pc/APIC.acpihmat      |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.acpihmat      |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/pc/HMAT.acpihmat      |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/pc/SRAT.acpihmat      |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/q35/APIC.acpihmat     |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/q35/DSDT.acpihmat     |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/q35/HMAT.acpihmat     |   0
>>   tests/data/acpi/q35/SRAT.acpihmat     |   0
>>   tests/test-cutils.c                   | 204 ++++++++++++++++++
>>   tests/test-keyval.c                   | 122 +++++++++++
>>   tests/test-qobject-input-visitor.c    |  29 +++
>>   util/cutils.c                         |  86 +++++---
>>   32 files changed, 1562 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 hw/acpi/hmat.c
>>   create mode 100644 hw/acpi/hmat.h
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/pc/APIC.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/pc/HMAT.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/pc/SRAT.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/q35/APIC.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/q35/DSDT.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/q35/HMAT.acpihmat
>>   create mode 100644 tests/data/acpi/q35/SRAT.acpihmat
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.20.1