selftests/resctrl: Use cache size to determine "fill_buf" buffer size

By default the MBM and MBA tests use the "fill_buf" benchmark to
read from a buffer with the goal to measure the memory bandwidth
generated by this buffer access.

Care should be taken when sizing the buffer used by the "fill_buf"
benchmark. If the buffer is small enough to fit in the cache then
it cannot be expected that the benchmark will generate much memory
bandwidth. For example, on a system with 320MB L3 cache the existing
hardcoded default of 250MB is insufficient.

Use the measured cache size to determine a buffer size that can be
expected to trigger memory access while keeping the existing default
as minimum, now renamed to MINIMUM_SPAN, that has been appropriate for
testing so far.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
index 032cd9ebd761..a553fe975938 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 #define BENCHMARK_ARGS		64
 
-#define DEFAULT_SPAN		(250 * MB)
+#define MINIMUM_SPAN		(250 * MB)
 
 /*
  * fill_buf_param:	"fill_buf" benchmark parameters
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event, pid_t pid, int cpu,
 unsigned char *alloc_buffer(size_t buf_size, bool memflush);
 void mem_flush(unsigned char *buf, size_t buf_size);
 void fill_cache_read(unsigned char *buf, size_t buf_size, bool once);
+ssize_t get_fill_buf_size(int cpu_no, const char *cache_type);
 int initialize_read_mem_bw_imc(void);
 int measure_read_mem_bw(const struct user_params *uparams,
 			struct resctrl_val_param *param, pid_t bm_pid);