linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 2/8] x86/resctrl: Prepare to split rdt

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Message-ID: <3afbbc76-3dd7-42e8-9034-514176582d08@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:18:21 -0800
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "Peter Newman" <peternewman@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, <x86@...nel.org>
CC:     Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@...cinc.com>,
        Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <patches@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 2/8] x86/resctrl: Prepare to split rdt_domain
 structure

Hi Tony,

On 11/9/2023 3:09 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> The rdt_domain structure is used for both control and monitor features.
> It is about to be split into separate structures for these two usages
> because the scope for control and monitoring features for a resource
> will be different for future resources.
> 
> To allow for common code that scans a list of domains looking for a
> specific domain id, move all the common fields ("list", "id", "cpu_mask")
> into their own structure within the rdt_domain structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>

Reinette