linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 8/8] x86/resctrl: Update documentation with Sub-NUMA cluster changes

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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:25:01 -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 8/8] x86/resctrl: Update documentation with Sub-NUMA
 cluster changes

Hi Tony,

On 11/9/2023 3:09 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> With Sub-NUMA Cluster mode enabled the scope of monitoring resources is
> per-NODE instead of per-L3 cache. Suffixes of directories with "L3" in
> their name refer to Sub-NUMA nodes instead of L3 cache ids.
> 
> Users should be aware that SNC mode also affects the amount of L3 cache
> available for allocation within each SNC node.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> ---

(note about order of commit tags)

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

Reinette