By default the MBM test uses the "fill_buf" benchmark to keep reading from a buffer with size DEFAULT_SPAN while measuring memory bandwidth. User space can provide an alternate benchmark or amend the size of the buffer "fill_buf" should use.
Analysis of the MBM measurements do not require that a buffer be used and thus do not require knowing the size of the buffer if it was used during testing. Even so, the buffer size is printed as informational as part of the MBM test results. What is printed as buffer size is hardcoded as DEFAULT_SPAN, even if the test relied on another benchmark (that may or may not use a buffer) or if user space amended the buffer size.
Ensure that accurate buffer size is printed when using "fill_buf" benchmark and omit the buffer size information if another benchmark is used.
Fixes: ecdbb911f22d ("selftests/resctrl: Add MBM test") Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre reinette.chatre@intel.com --- Backporting is not recommended. Backporting this fix will be a challenge with all the refactoring done since then. This issue does not impact default tests and there is no sign that folks run these tests with anything but the defaults. This issue is also minor since it does not impact actual test runs or results, just the information printed during a test run.
Changes since V2: - Make user input checks more robust. (Ilpo)
Changes since V1: - New patch. --- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c index 6b5a3b52d861..36ae29a03784 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/mbm_test.c @@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ show_bw_info(unsigned long *bw_imc, unsigned long *bw_resc, size_t span) ksft_print_msg("%s Check MBM diff within %d%%\n", ret ? "Fail:" : "Pass:", MAX_DIFF_PERCENT); ksft_print_msg("avg_diff_per: %d%%\n", avg_diff_per); - ksft_print_msg("Span (MB): %zu\n", span / MB); + if (span) + ksft_print_msg("Span (MB): %zu\n", span / MB); ksft_print_msg("avg_bw_imc: %lu\n", avg_bw_imc); ksft_print_msg("avg_bw_resc: %lu\n", avg_bw_resc);
@@ -138,15 +139,26 @@ static int mbm_run_test(const struct resctrl_test *test, const struct user_param .setup = mbm_setup, .measure = mbm_measure, }; + char *endptr = NULL; + size_t span = 0; int ret;
remove(RESULT_FILE_NAME);
+ if (uparams->benchmark_cmd[0] && strcmp(uparams->benchmark_cmd[0], "fill_buf") == 0) { + if (uparams->benchmark_cmd[1]) { + errno = 0; + span = strtoul(uparams->benchmark_cmd[1], &endptr, 10); + if (errno || *endptr != '\0') + return -errno; + } + } + ret = resctrl_val(test, uparams, uparams->benchmark_cmd, ¶m); if (ret) return ret;
- ret = check_results(DEFAULT_SPAN); + ret = check_results(span); if (ret && (get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL)) ksft_print_msg("Intel MBM may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n");