Intel Platform QoS tool for Linux

Colin King of Canonical has a new blog post on Intel’s Cache Monitoring Tool, and Intel’s Ubuntu implementation:

“The Intel Platform Shared Resource Monitoring features were introduced in the Intel Xeon E5v3 processor family. These new features provide a mechanism to measure platform shared resources, such as L3 cache occupancy via Cache Monitoring Technology (CMT) and memory bandwidth utilisation via Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM). Intel have written a Platform Quality of Service Tool (pqos) to use these monitoring features and I’ve packaged this up for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus.” […]

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2015/11/intel-platform-shared-resource.html

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/12/11/intels-cache-monitoring-technology-use-models-and-data

https://github.com/01org/intel-cmt-cat