Useful links

General Information

• Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT) website:
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/resource-director-technology.html
  This page contains information about CMT, CAT, MBM and CDP such as:

  • Overviews & benefits of the technologies
  • Software interfaces
  • Use models & sample data
  • Software support & tools

• Intel® RDT infrastructure white paper:
  https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/intel-rdt-infrastructure-paper.pdf

• 01.org website:
  https://01.org/packet-processing/cache-monitoring-technology-memory-bandwidth-monitoring-cache-allocation-technology-code-and-data

• Parameters in Linux kernel:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt This page contains parameters available in Linux kernel to enable/disable RDT features.

Blogs

• Intel Platform Quality of Service and Cache Allocation Technology - Colin Ian King:
  http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/intep-platform-quality-of-service-and.html

• Intel Platform Shared Resource Monitoring and Cache Allocation Technology - Colin Ian King:
  http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2015/11/intel-platform-shared-resource.html

Publications/Presentations

• Data Plane Development Kit Use Case with CMT/CAT:
  http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/increasing-platform-determinism-pqos-dpdk-paper.pdf

• Data Plane Development Kit Demo at Mobile World Congress 2015:
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/dpdk-nfv-mwc2015-demo.html

• How PQoS (CMT, CAT specifically) enable the NFV vision:
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/nfv-packet-processing-brief.html

• Intel® Open Network Platform Release 2.1 Application Note on Resource Director Technology:
  https://download.01.org/packet-processing/ONPS2.1/Intel_ONP_Release_2.1_Application_Note_on_RDT_Rev1.0.pdf

• Christos Kozyrakis et al, "Heracles: Improving Resource Efficiency at Scale":
  http://csl.stanford.edu/~christos/publications/2015.heracles.isca.pdf

• Linuxcon "Achieving QoS in Server Virtualization":
  http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/Achieving%20QoS%20in%20Server%20Virtualization.pdf

• Linuxcon "Resource Allocation: Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT)":
  https://lcccna2016.sched.org/event/7JWC/resource-allocation-intel-resource-director-technology-rdt-fenghua-yu-intel

• Linuxcon "CAT at Scale: Deploying Cache Isolation in a Mixed Workload Environment":
  https://lcccna2016.sched.org/event/7JX1/cat-at-scale-deploying-cache-isolation-in-a-mixed-workload-environment-rohit-jnagal-david-lo-google

• Facebook's new front-end server design delivers on performance without sucking up power:
  https://code.facebook.com/posts/1711485769063510/facebook-s-new-front-end-server-design-delivers-on-performance-without-sucking-up-power/

• Technology and Market Trends for the Data Centre:
  http://lvalsan.web.cern.ch/lvalsan/presentations/ITTF/ITTF_Jan_2016/#/title

• Ginseng: Market-Driven LLC Allocation:
  https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/presentation/funaro

Documentation

• HW/SW interface description is in SDM:
  http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html
  Chapters 17.16 and 17.17, Volume 3b

• Errata for Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor Scalable Family:
  https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-scalable-spec-update.pdf?asset=14615

• Intel RDT support in Linux kernel:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt

Tools

• Intel PCM (latest version supports CMT and MBM):
  https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-performance-counter-monitor

• Swan - an experimentation framework utilizing CMT, CAT and MBM:
  https://github.com/intelsdi-x/swan