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To:     Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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From:   Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
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Le 14/02/2019 à 18:10, Keith Busch a écrit :
> System memory may have caches to help improve access speed to frequently
> requested address ranges. While the system provided cache is transparent
> to the software accessing these memory ranges, applications can optimize
> their own access based on cache attributes.
>
> Provide a new API for the kernel to register these memory-side caches
> under the memory node that provides it.
>
> The new sysfs representation is modeled from the existing cpu cacheinfo
> attributes, as seen from /sys/devices/system/cpu/<cpu>/cache/.  Unlike CPU
> cacheinfo though, the node cache level is reported from the view of the
> memory. A higher level number is nearer to the CPU, while lower levels
> are closer to the last level memory.
>
> The exported attributes are the cache size, the line size, associativity,
> and write back policy, and add the attributes for the system memory
> caches to sysfs stable documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node |  35 +++++++
>  drivers/base/node.c                         | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/node.h                        |  34 +++++++
>  3 files changed, 220 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> index cd64b62152ba..5c88cb9ca14e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> @@ -143,3 +143,38 @@ Contact:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
>  Description:
>  		This node's write latency in nanoseconds when access
>  		from nodes found in this class's linked initiators.
> +
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memory_side_cache/indexY/
> +Date:		December 2018
> +Contact:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> +Description:
> +		The directory containing attributes for the memory-side cache
> +		level 'Y'.
> +
> +		The caches associativity: 0 for direct mapped, non-zero if
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memory_side_cache/indexY/associativity
> +Date:		December 2018
> +Contact:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> +Description:
> +		The caches associativity: 0 for direct mapped, non-zero if
> +		indexed.
> +
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memory_side_cache/indexY/line_size
> +Date:		December 2018
> +Contact:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> +Description:
> +		The number of bytes accessed from the next cache level on a
> +		cache miss.
> +
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memory_side_cache/indexY/size
> +Date:		December 2018
> +Contact:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> +Description:
> +		The size of this memory side cache in bytes.


Hello Keith,

CPU-side cache size is reported in kilobytes:

$ cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index*/size                                             

32K
32K
256K
4096K

Can you do the same of memory-side caches instead of reporting bytes?

Thanks

Brice