linux/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
Keith Busch 08d9dbe72b node: Link memory nodes to their compute nodes
Systems may be constructed with various specialized nodes. Some nodes
may provide memory, some provide compute devices that access and use
that memory, and others may provide both. Nodes that provide memory are
referred to as memory targets, and nodes that can initiate memory access
are referred to as memory initiators.

Memory targets will often have varying access characteristics from
different initiators, and platforms may have ways to express those
relationships. In preparation for these systems, provide interfaces for
the kernel to export the memory relationship among different nodes memory
targets and their initiators with symlinks to each other.

If a system provides access locality for each initiator-target pair, nodes
may be grouped into ranked access classes relative to other nodes. The
new interface allows a subsystem to register relationships of varying
classes if available and desired to be exported.

A memory initiator may have multiple memory targets in the same access
class. The target memory's initiators in a given class indicate the
nodes access characteristics share the same performance relative to other
linked initiator nodes. Each target within an initiator's access class,
though, do not necessarily perform the same as each other.

A memory target node may have multiple memory initiators. All linked
initiators in a target's class have the same access characteristics to
that target.

The following example show the nodes' new sysfs hierarchy for a memory
target node 'Y' with access class 0 from initiator node 'X':

  # symlinks -v /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/access0/
  relative: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/access0/targets/nodeY -> ../../nodeY

  # symlinks -v /sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/access0/
  relative: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/access0/initiators/nodeX -> ../../nodeX

The new attributes are added to the sysfs stable documentation.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-04 18:41:20 +02:00

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What: /sys/devices/system/node/possible
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Nodes that could be possibly become online at some point.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/online
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Nodes that are online.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Nodes that have regular memory.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Nodes that have one or more CPUs.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/has_high_memory
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Nodes that have regular or high memory.
Depends on CONFIG_HIGHMEM.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, this is a directory containing
information on node X such as what CPUs are local to the
node. Each file is detailed next.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpumap
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
The node's cpumap.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
The CPUs associated to the node.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/meminfo
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Provides information about the node's distribution and memory
utilization. Similar to /proc/meminfo, see Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/numastat
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
The node's hit/miss statistics, in units of pages.
See Documentation/numastat.txt
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/distance
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
Distance between the node and all the other nodes
in the system.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/vmstat
Date: October 2002
Contact: Linux Memory Management list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:
The node's zoned virtual memory statistics.
This is a superset of numastat.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/compact
Date: February 2010
Contact: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Description:
When this file is written to, all memory within that node
will be compacted. When it completes, memory will be freed
into blocks which have as many contiguous pages as possible
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/hugepages/hugepages-<size>/
Date: December 2009
Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Description:
The node's huge page size control/query attributes.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/accessY/
Date: December 2018
Contact: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Description:
The node's relationship to other nodes for access class "Y".
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/accessY/initiators/
Date: December 2018
Contact: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Description:
The directory containing symlinks to memory initiator
nodes that have class "Y" access to this target node's
memory. CPUs and other memory initiators in nodes not in
the list accessing this node's memory may have different
performance.
What: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/accessY/targets/
Date: December 2018
Contact: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Description:
The directory containing symlinks to memory targets that
this initiator node has class "Y" access.