Changes v2: - Removed patches 2 and 3 since now this part will be supported by the kernel.
Sub-Numa Clustering (SNC) allows splitting CPU cores, caches and memory into multiple NUMA nodes. When enabled, NUMA-aware applications can achieve better performance on bigger server platforms.
SNC support in the kernel is currently in review [1]. With SNC enabled and kernel support in place all the tests will function normally. There might be a problem when SNC is enabled but the system is still using an older kernel version without SNC support. Currently the only message displayed in that situation is a guess that SNC might be enabled and is causing issues. That message also is displayed whenever the test fails on an Intel platform.
Add a mechanism to discover kernel support for SNC which will add more meaning and certainty to the error message.
Series was tested on Ice Lake server platforms with SNC disabled, SNC-2 and SNC-4. The tests were also ran with and without kernel support for SNC.
Series applies cleanly on kselftest/next.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240503203325.21512-1-tony.luck@intel.com/
Previous versions of this series: [v1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1709721159.git.maciej.wieczor-retman@intel...
Maciej Wieczor-Retman (2): selftests/resctrl: Adjust effective L3 cache size with SNC enabled selftests/resctrl: Adjust SNC support messages
tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cat_test.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/cmt_test.c | 6 +- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mba_test.c | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c | 4 +- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h | 8 +- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrlfs.c | 131 +++++++++++++++++++- 6 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)