linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 05/24] x86/resctrl: Track the closid with the rmid

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Message-ID: <e54dedf6-158f-4553-b309-e4c61d69587a@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:58:03 -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>, <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>, Jamie Iles
	<quic_jiles@...cinc.com>, Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	<peternewman@...gle.com>, <dfustini@...libre.com>, <amitsinght@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/24] x86/resctrl: Track the closid with the rmid

Hi James,

On 12/15/2023 9:43 AM, James Morse wrote:
> x86's RMID are independent of the CLOSID. An RMID can be allocated,
> used and freed without considering the CLOSID.
> 
> MPAM's equivalent feature is PMG, which is not an independent number,
> it extends the CLOSID/PARTID space. For MPAM, only PMG-bits worth of
> 'RMID' can be allocated for a single CLOSID.
> i.e. if there is 1 bit of PMG space, then each CLOSID can have two
> monitor groups.
> 
> To allow resctrl to disambiguate RMID values for different CLOSID,
> everything in resctrl that keeps an RMID value needs to know the CLOSID
> too. This will always be ignored on x86.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
> Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---

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

Reinette