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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:40:49 +0000
From: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
"Anvin, H Peter" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 23/32] x86/intel_rdt.c: Extend RDT to per cache and per
resources
> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:tglx@...utronix.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 6:07 AM
> To: Yu, Fenghua <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>; Anvin, H Peter
> <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>; Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...el.com>; Tejun Heo
> <tj@...nel.org>; Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>; Stephane Eranian
> <eranian@...gle.com>; Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>; Marcelo
> Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>; David Carrillo-Cisneros
> <davidcc@...gle.com>; Shankar, Ravi V <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>; Vikas
> Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>; Prakhya, Sai Praneeth
> <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>; linux-kernel <linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org>; x86 <x86@...nel.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/32] x86/intel_rdt.c: Extend RDT to per cache and per
> resources
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
>
> > From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> >
> > QoS mask MSRs array is per cache. We need to allocate CLOSID per cache
> > instead global CLOSID.
> >
> > A few different resources can share same QoS mask MSRs array. For
> > example, one L2 cache can share QoS MSRs with its next level
> > L3 cache. A domain number represents the L2 cache, the L3 cache, the
> > L2 cache's shared cpumask, and the L3 cache's shared cpumask.
> >
> > cctable is extended to be index by domain number so that each cache
> > has its own control table.
> >
> > shared_domain is introduced to cover multiple resources sharing
> > CLOSID.
>
> This patch does a dozen different things at once. Can you please split the
> cleanup parts, the parts where statics are removed and the actual changes in
> the representation model apart so this can be reviewed?
>
> And while at this, please fold back thes cleanups into the original patches.
> There is no point to have these changes seperate.
Sure. Will do this.
Thanks.
-Fenghua
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