Lactose

Summary:

1. snmp
   - Added OS interface support to Net-SNMP sub-agent
2. General
   - Build improvements
   - Bug fixes

Galactose

Summary:

1. Library
   - Removed NO_PID_API compile time option
   - Added OS interface to support L3/L2 CAT & CDP
   - Updated support for CMT per PID
2. PQoS Utility
   - Added pqos-os & pqos-msr wrapper scripts
   - Added option to select OS or MSR interface
3. rdtset Utility
   - Added option to select OS or MSR interface
4. Examples
   - Support for new OS/MSR interface added to CMT/MBM examples

Crystalline Fructose

Summary:

• Library
  • Perl interface extended to support L2 CAT and CMT
  • Logging extended to allow callback and silence functionality
  • L2 CAT updated to operate on a per cluster/L2 ID basis
  • Support for MBA
• SNMP
  • Added CMT support to Net-SNMP sub-agent
• PQoS Utility
  • L2 CAT updated to operate on a per cluster/L2 ID basis
  • Support for MBA
• rdtset Utility
  • L2 CAT updated to operate on a per cluster/L2 ID basis

Fructose

Feature Summary:

• General
  • Project file layout changed to accommodate extensions
  • Added support for FreeBSD
  • Added Travis CI
• Library
  • Added support for Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor E5 v4
  • DSO now built by default
  • Moved examples to top directory
  • Perl interface created for the library
  • PID API no longer compiled by default
  • Added support for L2 CAT
  • Makefile dependencies improved
• PQoS Utility
  • pqos directory created to accommodate the utility files
  • Now links against DSO
  • Added COS management on a per socket basis
  • Added support for L2 CAT
  • Makefile dependencies improved
• rdtset Utility
  • Taskset type functionality for CAT
  • Configures CAT for specified task
• Examples
  • Directory created to accommodate examples previously located in library directory
  • Perl hello world script created
• SNMP
  • Net-SNMP sub-agent created to allow remote CAT configuration
• SRPM
  • Added source package file and spec file

Known issues:

• #33 COS out of range check needed for L3 CAT in pqos utility.

Glucose

Feature Summary:

1. Hardware support
   Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor E3 v4 support (selected SKU's)
2. Monitoring
   • PID/TID monitoring through Linux perf
   • IPC (instructions per clock) performance event
   • LLC misses performance event
   • CSV output
   • Monitoring core groups
3. Allocation
   • CDP (code data prioritization) detection and management
4. General
   • man page
   • install and uninstall rules
   • cppcheck & coding style rules

Known Issues:

1. In 24 hour monitoring test (1s interval) of multiple application instances it has been detected that number of records is missing. Record loss rate is about 0.01% (1 per 10,000). At this stage root cause is not known and the issue will be subject of further investigation.

CMT, MBM and CAT Reference Code version 0.1.3

v0.1.3

Initial gitignore file for the project