linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/21] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl_arch_rmid

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:40:32 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     "tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com" <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/21] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl_arch_rmid_read()
 return values in bytes

Hello!

On 13/09/2022 02:00, tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com wrote:
>> Changes in this version?
>>  * Changed supports_mba_mbps() to use is_mbm_local_enabled()
>>
>> ---
>> The aim of this series is to insert a split between the parts of the monitor code
>> that the architecture must implement, and those that are part of the resctrl
>> filesystem. The eventual aim is to move all filesystem parts out to live in
>> /fs/resctrl, so that resctrl can be wired up for MPAM.
>>
>> What's MPAM? See the cover letter of a previous series. [1]
>>
>> The series adds domain online/offline callbacks to allow the filesystem to
>> manage some of its structures itself, then moves all the 'mba_sc' behaviour to
>> be part of the filesystem.
>> This means another architecture doesn't need to provide an mbps_val array.
>> As its all software, the resctrl filesystem should be able to do this without any
>> help from the architecture code.
>>
>> Finally __rmid_read() is refactored to be the API call that the architecture
>> provides to read a counter value. All the hardware specific overflow detection,
>> scaling and value correction should occur behind this helper.

> I tested this patch series(patch v6) on Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6254 CPU with resctrl selftest.
> It is no problem.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>

Thanks for testing it again!


James