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

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Message-ID: <802e84b7-ff12-19df-cb72-6cf307c7d67a@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:05:26 +0000
From: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/24] x86/resctrl: Track the closid with the rmid

Hi Reinette,

On 16/12/2023 04:58, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>


Thanks!

James