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SubjectRe: [PATCH V1 01/13] selftests/resctrl: Fix feature detection
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Hi Sai,

On 3/9/2020 3:22 PM, Prakhya, Sai Praneeth wrote:
> Hi Reinette,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
>> Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:45 PM
>> On 3/6/2020 7:40 PM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote:

[SNIP]

>> Please note that this is only a partial fix. The current feature detection relies on
>> the feature flags found in /proc/cpuinfo. Quirks and kernel boot parameters are
>> not taken into account. This fix only addresses the parsing of feature flags. If a
>> feature has been disabled via kernel boot parameter or quirk then the resctrl
>> tests would still attempt to run the test for it.
>
> That's a good point and makes sense to me. I think we could fix it in two ways
> 1. grep for strings in dmesg but that will still leave ambiguity in deciding b/w mbm and cqm because kernel prints "resctrl: L3 monitoring detected" for both the features
> 2. Check in "info" directory
> a. For cat_l3, we could search for info/L3
> b. For mba, we could search for info/MB
> c. For cqm and mbm, we could search for specified string in info/L3_MON/mon_features
>
> I think option 2 might be better because it can handle all cases, please let me know what you think.

I agree. For the reasons you mention and also that (1) may not be
possible if the loglevel prevents those lines from being printed.

Reinette

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