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DESCRIPTION¶

Intel(R) Resource Director Technology includes monitoring and control technologies. Monitoring technologies include CMT (Cache Monitoring Technology), which monitors occupancy of last level cache, and MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring). Control technologies include CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) and CDP (Code Data Prioritization).

pqos supports CMT and MBM on a per core or hardware thread basis. MBM supports two types of events reporting local and remote memory bandwidth.

For hardware information please refer to the README located on: https://github.com/01org/intel-cmt-cat/blob/master/README

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

show help

-v, --verbose

verbose mode

-V, --super-verbose

super-verbose mode

-l FILE, --log-file=FILE

log messages into selected log FILE

-s, --show

show the current allocation and monitoring configuration

-f FILE, --config-file=FILE

load commands from selected configuration FILE

-e CLASSDEF, --alloc-class=CLASSDEF

define the allocation classes on all CPU sockets. CLASSDEF format is "TYPE:ID=DEFINITION;...".
define classes for selected CPU sockets. CLASSDEF format is "TYPE[@SOCK_LIST]:ID=DEFINITION;...".
For CAT, TYPE is "llc", ID is a CLOS number and DEFINITION is a bitmask.
Note: When CDP is on, ID can be postfixed with 'D' for data or 'C' for code.
For example: "-e llc:0=0xffff;llc:1=0x00ff;llc@0-1:2=0xff00;l2:2=0x3f;l2@2:1=0xf", or for CDP: "-e llc:0d=0xfff;llc:0c=0xfff00."

-a CLASS2CORE, --alloc-assoc=CLASS2CORE

associate allocation classes with cores. CLASS2CORE format is "TYPE:ID=CORE_LIST;...".
For CAT, TYPE is "llc" and ID is a class number. CORE_LIST is comma or dash separated list of cores.
For example "-a llc:0=0,2,4,6-10;llc:1=1;" associates cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with CAT class 0 and core 1 with class 1.

-R [CONFIG], --alloc-reset[=CONFIG]

reset allocation setting (L3 CAT, L2 CAT) and reconfigure L3 CDP. CONFIG is one of the following options:
l3cdp-on sets L3 CDP on
l3cdp-off sets L3 CDP off
l3cdp-any keep current L3 CDP setting (default)

-m EVTCORES, --mon-core=EVTCORES

select the cores and events for monitoring, EVTCORES format is "EVENT:CORE_LIST". Valid EVENT settings are:
- "llc" for CMT (LLC occupancy)
- "mbr" for MBR (remote memory bandwidth)
- "mbl" for MBL (local memory bandwidth)
- "all" or "" for all detected event types
CORE_LIST is comma or dash separated list of cores.
Example "-m all:0,2,4-10;llc:1,3;mbr:11-12".
Core statistics can be grouped by enclosing the core list in square brackets.
Example "-m llc:[0-3];all:[4,5,6];mbr:[0-3],7,8".

-p EVTPIDS, --mon-pid=EVTPIDS

select the process ids and events to monitor, EVTPIDS format is "EVENT:PID_LIST". See -m option for valid EVENT settings. PID_LIST is comma separated list of process ids.
Examples "-p llc:22,25673" or "-p all:892,4588-4592".
Note: it is not possible to track both processes and cores at the same time.
Note: Process tracking depends on the library to be built with PID API.

-T, --mon-top

enable top like monitoring output sorted by highest LLC occupancy

-o FILE, --mon-file FILE

select output FILE to store monitored data in, the default is 'stdout'

-u TYPE, --mon-file-type=TYPE

select the output format TYPE for monitored data. Supported TYPE settings are: "text" (default), "xml" and "csv".

-i INTERVAL, --mon-interval=INTERVAL

define monitoring sampling INTERVAL in 100ms units, 1=100ms, default 10=10x100ms=1s

-t SECONDS, --mon-time=SECONDS

define monitoring time in seconds, use 'inf' or 'infinite' for infinite monitoring. Use CTRL+C to stop monitoring at any time.

-r, --mon-reset

reset monitoring and use all RMID's and cores in the system

-H, --profile-list

list supported allocation profiles

-c PROFILE, --profile-set=PROFILE

select a PROFILE from predefined allocation classes, use -H to list available profiles

NOTES¶

For Linux:
sudo modprobe msr

For FreeBSD:
sudo kldload cpuctl

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