linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 05/18] x86/resctrl: Allow RMID allocation to be scoped by CLOSID

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Date:   Thu, 2 Feb 2023 15:45:45 -0800
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>,
        <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>,
        D Scott Phillips OS <scott@...amperecomputing.com>,
        <carl@...amperecomputing.com>, <lcherian@...vell.com>,
        <bobo.shaobowang@...wei.com>, <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>,
        <xingxin.hx@...nanolis.org>, <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@...cinc.com>,
        Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>, <peternewman@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/18] x86/resctrl: Allow RMID allocation to be scoped
 by CLOSID

Hi James,

On 1/13/2023 9:54 AM, James Morse wrote:
> MPAMs RMID values are not unique unless the CLOSID is considered as well.
> 
> alloc_rmid() expects the RMID to be an independent number.
> 
> Pass the CLOSID in to alloc_rmid(). Use this to compare indexes when
> allocating. If the CLOSID is not relevant to the index, this ends up
> comparing the free RMID with itself, and the first free entry will be
> used. With MPAM the CLOSID is included in the index, so this becomes a
> walk of the free RMID entries, until one that matches the supplied
> CLOSID is found.
> 
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>

...

>  /*
> - * As of now the RMIDs allocation is global.
> + * As of now the RMIDs allocation is the same in each domain.

Could you please elaborate what is meant/intended with this change
(global vs per domain)? From the changelog a comment that RMID
allocation is the same in each resource group for MPAM may be
expected but per domain is not clear to me.

Reinette