linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 02/13] x86/resctrl: Add a new resource type RDT_RESOURCE

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Message-ID: <9ecad0af-c801-1638-c658-6823e4ddf483@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:04:39 -0800
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>, <corbet@....net>,
        <tglx@...utronix.de>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 02/13] x86/resctrl: Add a new resource type
 RDT_RESOURCE_SMBA

Hi Babu,

On 11/4/2022 1:00 PM, Babu Moger wrote:
> Add a new resource type RDT_RESOURCE_SMBA to handle the QoS
> enforcement policies on the external slow memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c     |   12 ++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> index 03cfbf0fe000..4b970e7192e8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> @@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ struct rdt_hw_resource rdt_resources_all[] = {
>  			.fflags			= RFTYPE_RES_MB,
>  		},
>  	},
> +	[RDT_RESOURCE_SMBA] =
> +	{
> +		.r_resctrl = {
> +			.rid			= RDT_RESOURCE_SMBA,
> +			.name			= "SMBA",
> +			.cache_level		= 3,
> +			.domains		= domain_init(RDT_RESOURCE_SMBA),
> +			.parse_ctrlval		= parse_bw,
> +			.format_str		= "%d=%*u",
> +			.fflags			= RFTYPE_RES_MB,
> +		},
> +	},
>  };
>  

Looking ahead at patch #5, I think that the initialization of
msr_base and msr_update (in rdt_init_res_defs_amd()) can be moved
here also.

>  /*
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> index 5f7128686cfd..43d9f6f5a931 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> @@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ enum resctrl_res_level {
>  	RDT_RESOURCE_L3,
>  	RDT_RESOURCE_L2,
>  	RDT_RESOURCE_MBA,
> +	RDT_RESOURCE_SMBA,
>  
>  	/* Must be the last */
>  	RDT_NUM_RESOURCES,
> 
> 

Reinette