Re: [PATCH 23/24] selftests/resctrl: Add L2 CAT test

[Maciej Wieczór-Retman]

On 2023-10-24 at 12:26:33 +0300, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>CAT selftests only cover L3 but some newer CPUs come also with L2 CAT
>support.

Is there some some defined line since what CPU model is L2 CAT supported?

In my opinion, from the perspective of someone digging up this commit a couple
years from now it could be handy to have something more specific instead of
"some newer CPUs".

>
>Add L2 CAT selftest. As measuring L2 misses is not easily available
>with perf, use L3 accesses as a proxy for L2 CAT working or not.
>
>Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kind regards
Maciej Wieczór-Retman