which shows each socket has its own dedicated L3 cache, and each core has its own L2 & L1 cache.
We need to also include the host cache ID value in the XML to let us reliably distinguish / associate with differet cache banks when placing guests, if there's multiple caches of the same type associated with the same CPU.
<cache> <bank id="0" type="l3" size="56320" units="KiB" cpus="0,2,3,6,7,8"/> <bank id="1" type="l3" size="56320" units="KiB" cpus="0,2,3,6,7,8"/> <bank id="2" type="l3" size="56320" units="KiB" cpus="3,4,5,9,10,11"/> <bank id="3" type="l3" size="56320" units="KiB" cpus="3,4,5,9,10,11"/> <bank id="4" type="l2" size="256" units="KiB" cpus="0"/> .... </cache>
3. Add new virsh command 'nodecachestats': This API is to expose vary cache resouce left on each hardware (cpu socket).
It will be formated as:
<resource_type>.<resource_id>: left size KiB
for example I have a 2 socket cpus host, and I'v enabled cat_l3 feature only
root@s2600wt:~/linux# virsh nodecachestats L3.0 : 56320 KiB L3.1 : 56320 KiB
P.S. resource_type can be L3, L3DATA, L3CODE, L2 for now.
This feels like something we should have in the capabilities XML too rather than a new command
<cache> <bank type="l3" size="56320" units="KiB" cpus="0,2,3,6,7,8"> <control unit="KiB" min="2816" avail="56320/> </bank> <bank type="l3" size="56320" units="KiB" cpus="3,4,5,9,10,11"> <control unit="KiB" min="2816" avail="56320"/> </bank> </cache>
Opps, ignore this. I remember the reason we always report available resource separately from physically present resource, is that we don't want to re-generate capabilities XML every time available resource changes.
So, yes, we do need some API like virNodeFreeCache() / virs nodefreecache
yes, we need this.
We probably want to use an 2d array of typed parameters. The first level of the array would represent the cache bank, the second level woudl represent the parameters for that bank. eg if we had 3 cache banks, we'd report a 3x3 typed parameter array, with parameters for the cache ID, its type and the available / free size
id=0 type=l3 avail=56320
id=1 type=l3 avail=56320
id=2 type=l3 avail=56320
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