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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] selftests/resctrl: Print a message if the result
 of MBM&CMT tests is failed on Intel CPU
To:     Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
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        Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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Date:   Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:34:45 -0600
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On 3/23/22 2:09 AM, Shaopeng Tan wrote:
> According to "Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) on
> 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Reference Manual",
> When the Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering(SNC) feature is enabled,
> Intel CMT and MBM counters may not be accurate.
> 
> However, there does not seem to be an architectural way to detect
> if SNC is enabled.
> 
> If the result of MBM&CMT test fails on Intel CPU,
> print a message to let users know a possible cause of failure.
> 
> Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah