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NAME

       pqos,  pqos-msr,  pqos-os  - Intel(R) Resource Director Technology/AMD PQoS monitoring and
       control tool

SYNOPSIS

       pqos [OPTIONS]...

DESCRIPTION

       Intel(R) Resource Director Technology/AMD PQoS is  designed  to  monitor  and  manage  cpu
       resources and improve performance of applications and virtual machines.

       Intel(R)   Resource   Director   Technology/AMD   PQoS  includes  monitoring  and  control
       technologies. Monitoring technologies include CMT  (Cache  Monitoring  Technology),  which
       monitors  occupancy  of  last level cache, and MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring).  Control
       technologies include CAT (Cache Allocation Technology), CDP (Code Data Prioritization) and
       MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation).

       pqos  supports  CMT and MBM on a per core or hardware thread basis. MBM supports two types
       of events reporting local and remote memory bandwidth.
       pqos-msr and pqos-os are simple pqos wrapper scripts that automatically select the MSR  or
       OS/Kernel library interface to program the technologies.
       Please see the -I option below for more information.

       For    hardware    information    please    refer    to    the    README    located    on:
       https://github.com/intel/intel-cmt-cat/blob/master/README

OPTIONS

       pqos options are as follow:

       -h, --help
              show help

       -v, --verbose
              verbose mode

       -V, --super-verbose
              super-verbose mode

       -l FILE, --log-file=FILE
              log messages into selected log FILE

       -s, --show
              show the current allocation and monitoring configuration

       -d, --display
              display supported Intel(R) Resource Director Technology/AMD PQoS capabilities

       -D, --display-verbose
              display supported Intel(R) Resource Director Technology/AMD  PQoS  capabilities  in
              verbose mode

       -f FILE, --config-file=FILE
              load commands from selected configuration FILE

       -e CLASSDEF, --alloc-class=CLASSDEF
              define   the   allocation   classes   on   all  CPU  sockets.  CLASSDEF  format  is
              "TYPE:ID=DEFINITION;...".
              define   classes   for    selected    CPU    resources.    CLASSDEF    format    is
              "TYPE[@RESOURCE_ID]:ID=DEFINITION;...".
              For  CAT,  TYPE  is  "llc"  for  the last level cache (aka l3) and "l2" for level 2
              cache, ID is a CLOS number and DEFINITION is a bitmask.
              For MBA, TYPE is "mba", ID is a CLOS number and DEFINITION is a value between 1 and
              100 representing the percentage of available memory bandwidth.
              For  MBA  CTRL,  TYPE  is  "mba_max", ID is a CLOS number and DEFINITION is a value
              representing the requested memory bandwidth specified in MBps.
              RESOURCE_ID is a  unique  number  that  can  represent  a  socket  or  l2/l3  cache
              identifier. The RESOURCE_ID for each logical CPU can be found using "pqos -s"
              Note: When L2/L3 CDP is on, ID can be postfixed with 'D' for data or 'C' for code.
              Note: L2/L3 CDP is available on selected CPUs only.
              Note:  MBA CTRL is supported only by the OS interface and requires Linux and kernel
              version 4.18 or newer.
              Some examples:
                     "-e llc:0=0xffff;llc:1=0x00ff"
                     "-e llc@0-1:2=0xff00;l2:2=0x3f;l2@2:1=0xf"
                     "-e llc:0d=0xfff;llc:0c=0xfff00"
                     "-e l2:0d=0xf;l2:0c=0xc"
                     "-e mba:1=30;mba@1:3=80"
                     "-e mba_max:1=6000;mba_max@1:3=10000"
              Note:
                     "-e l2:2=0x3f" means that COS2 for all L2 cache clusters is changed to 0x3f.
                     "-e l2@2:1=0xf" means that COS1 for L2 cache cluster 2 is changed to 0xf.
                     "-e mba:1=30" means that COS1, on all sockets, can  utilize  up  to  30%  of
                     available memory bandwidth.
                     "-e  mba_max:1=6000" means that COS1, on all sockets, can utilize up to 6000
                     MBps of memory bandwidth.

       -a CLASS2ID, --alloc-assoc=CLASS2ID
              associate  allocation  classes  with  cores  or  processes.  CLASS2ID   format   is
              "TYPE:ID=CORE_LIST;..." or "TYPE:ID=TASK_LIST;...".
              For COS association required for CAT or MBA, TYPE is "cos", "llc", "core" (for COS-
              core association) or "pid" (for COS-process association) and ID is a class  number.
              CORE_LIST  is  comma  or  dash  separated list of cores. TASK_LIST is comma or dash
              separated list of process/task ID's.
              For example:
                     "-a cos:0=0,2,4,6-10;cos:1=1;" associates cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with
                     CAT class 0 and core 1 with class 1.
                     "-a llc:0=0,2,4,6-10;llc:1=1;" associates cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 with
                     CAT class 0 and core 1 with class 1.
                     "-a core:0=0,2,4,6-10;core:1=1;" associates cores 0, 2, 4, 6, 7,  8,  9,  10
                     with CAT class 0 and core 1 with class 1.
                     "-I  -a  pid:0=3543,7643,4556;pid:1=7644;" associates process ID 3543, 7643,
                     4556 with CAT class 0 and process ID 7644 with class 1.
              Notes:
                     "llc" TYPE label is  considered  deprecated,  please  use  "cos"  or  "core"
                     instead.
                     The -I option must be used for PID association.

       -R [CONFIG[,CONFIG]], --alloc-reset[=CONFIG[,CONFIG]]
              reset  allocation  setting  (L3 CAT, L2 CAT, MBA) and reconfigure L3 CDP. CONFIG is
              one of the following options:
              l3cdp-on  sets L3 CDP on
              l3cdp-off sets L3 CDP off
              l3cdp-any keeps current L3 CDP setting (default)
              l2cdp-on  sets L2 CDP on
              l2cdp-off sets L2 CDP off
              l2cdp-any keeps current L2 CDP setting (default)
              mbaCtrl-on     sets MBA CTRL on
              mbaCtrl-off    sets MBA CTRL off
              mbaCtrl-any    keeps current MBA CTRL setting (default)

       -m EVTCORES, --mon-core=EVTCORES
              select the cores and events for monitoring, EVTCORES format  is  "EVENT:CORE_LIST".
              Valid EVENT settings are:
              - "llc" for CMT (LLC occupancy)
              - "mbr" for MBR (remote memory bandwidth)
              - "mbl" for MBL (local memory bandwidth)
              - "mbt" for MBT (total memory bandwidth)
              - "all" or ""  for all detected event types (except MBT)
              CORE_LIST is comma or dash separated list of cores.
              Example "-m all:0,2,4-10;llc:1,3;mbr:11-12".
              Core statistics can be grouped by enclosing the core list in square brackets.
              Example "-m llc:[0-3];all:[4,5,6];mbr:[0-3],7,8".

       -p [EVTPIDS], --mon-pid[=EVTPIDS]
              select  top  10  most  active  (CPU utilizing) process ids to monitor or select the
              process ids and events to monitor, EVTPIDS format is "EVENT:PID_LIST".
              See -m option for valid EVENT settings. PID_LIST is comma separated list of process
              ids.
              Examples:
                     "-p llc:22,25673"
                     "-p all:892,4588-4592"

              Process's IDs can be grouped by enclosing them in square brackets.
              Examples:
                     "-p llc:[22,25673]"
                     "-p all:892,[4588-4592]"

              Note:
                     Requires Linux and kernel versions 4.10 and newer.
                     The -I option must be used for PID monitoring.
                     It is not possible to track both processes and cores at the same time.

       --mon-uncore[=EVTUNCORE]
              select   sockets   and   uncore   events   for   monitoring,  EVTUNCORE  format  is
              'EVENT:SOCKET_LIST.  Socket's IDs can  be  grouped  by  enclosing  them  in  square
              brackets.
              Examples:
                     "--mon-uncore"
                     "--mon-uncore=all:0"

              Note: It is not possible to track both sockets and cores at the same time.

       -T, --mon-top
              enable top like monitoring output sorted by highest LLC occupancy

       -o FILE, --mon-file FILE
              select output FILE to store monitored data in, the default is 'stdout'

       -u TYPE, --mon-file-type=TYPE
              select  the  output  format  TYPE  for monitored data. Supported TYPE settings are:
              "text" (default), "xml" and "csv".

       -i INTERVAL, --mon-interval=INTERVAL
              define monitoring sampling INTERVAL in 100ms units, 1=100ms, default 10=10x100ms=1s

       -t SECONDS, --mon-time=SECONDS
              define monitoring time in seconds, use 'inf' or 'infinite' for infinite monitoring.
              Use CTRL+C to stop monitoring at any time.

       -r, --mon-reset
              reset monitoring and use all RMID's and cores in the system

       --disable-mon-ipc
              Disable IPC monitoring

       --disable-mon-llc_miss
              Disable LLC misses monitoring

       -H, --profile-list
              list supported allocation profiles

       -c PROFILE, --profile-set=PROFILE
              select  a  PROFILE  from  predefined  allocation  classes, use -H to list available
              profiles

       -I, --iface-os
              set the library interface to use the kernel implementation. If not set the  default
              implementation is to program the MSR's directly.

       --iface=INTERFACE
              set  the  library  interface to automatically detected one ('auto'), MSR ('msr') or
              kernel interface ('os').  INTERFACE can be set to either 'auto' (default), 'msr' or
              'os'. If automatic detection is selected ('auto'), it:
              1) Takes RDT_IFACE environment variable into account if this variable is set
              2) Selects OS interface if the kernel interface is supported
              3) Selects MSR interface otherwise

NOTES

       CMT,  MBM  and CAT are configured using Model Specific Registers (MSRs). The pqos software
       executes in user space, and access to the MSRs  is  obtained  through  a  standard  Linux*
       interface.  The  msr  file  interface  is protected and requires root privileges.  The msr
       driver might not be auto-loaded and on some modular kernels the  driver  may  need  to  be
       loaded manually:

       For Linux:
       sudo modprobe msr

       For FreeBSD:
       sudo kldload cpuctl

       Interface enforcement:
       If  you require system wide interface enforcement you can do so by setting the "RDT_IFACE"
       environment variable.

SEE ALSO

       msr(4)

AUTHOR

       pqos  was  written  by   Tomasz   Kantecki   <tomasz.kantecki@intel.com>,   Marcel   Cornu
       <marcel.d.cornu@intel.com>, Aaron Hetherington <aaron.hetherington@intel.com>

       This  is  free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not
       even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

                                           Apr 19, 2022                                   PQOS(8)