Memory Bandwidth Monitoring

Kundan__Shivam — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:59:43 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to record the number of number of memory accesses for each core on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6130 CPU @ 2.10GHz using its MBM capability. The function I am using is listed below. I followed the steps in Intel's software developer manual vol 3 section 17.18 but I do not get any output. I tried all three events (0x01, 0x02, and 0x03) listed in table 17-18 but none worked. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong here?

void InitRMID (aff_counters_t *cntrs)
{
int i, cpus_nr;
__u64 pqr_assoc_msr, qm_evtsel;
__u64 rmid, maxrmid;
__u64 event;
prfcnt_t *handle;

L3CMTGetCapabilities(&cntrs->L3Cap);

printf("MaxRMID: %d and UpscalingFactor: %d\n", cntrs->L3Cap.MaxRMID, cntrs->L3Cap.UpscalingFactor);

maxrmid = cntrs->L3Cap.MaxRMID;
cpus_nr = cntrs->cpus_nr;

\\ cpus, given from command line, should correspond to those of socket 0.
\\ RMID are associated to cpus like following: [MaxRMID-cpu0], [(MaxRMID-1)-cpu1]
rmid = maxrmid;

for(i = 0; i < cpus_nr; i++)
{
handle = &cntrs->prfcnt;

// Association between core and RMID (Filling IA32_PQR_ASSOC register)

prfcnt_rdmsr(handle->msr_fd, IA32_PQR_ASSOC, &pqr_assoc_msr);

printf("pqr_assoc_msr before: %d\n",pqr_assoc_msr );

pqr_assoc_msr &= 0xfffffffffffffc00;

if ((rmid > 0x4ff) || (rmid > maxrmid))
{
printf("rmid value exceeds the limits\n");
exit(-1);
}

rmid &= 0x00000000000004ff;
pqr_assoc_msr |= rmid;
printf("pqr_assoc_msr after: %d\n",pqr_assoc_msr );
printf("Associating CPU: %d with RMID: %lld and pqr_assoc_msr: %#18llx\n", handle->cpu, rmid, pqr_assoc_msr);

prfcnt_wrmsr(handle->msr_fd, IA32_PQR_ASSOC, pqr_assoc_msr);

// Select event in IA32_QM_EVTSEL (Filling RMID and EvtID)

event = (rmid<<32);
qm_evtsel = event | 0x0000000000000002; \\Selecting the event 0x02

printf("qm_evtsel value: %#18llx\n", qm_evtsel);

prfcnt_wrmsr(handle->msr_fd, IA32_QM_EVTSEL, qm_evtsel);
--rmid;
}
}

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