linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15-RFC 6/8] x86/resctrl: Introduce snc_nodes_per_l3

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:22:56 -0600
From: "Moger, Babu" <babu.moger@....com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
 Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
 Peter Newman <peternewman@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
 Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
 Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@...cinc.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
 Drew Fustini <dfustini@...libre.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v15-RFC 6/8] x86/resctrl: Introduce snc_nodes_per_l3_cache

Hi Tony,

On 2/9/24 13:35, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 09:29:16AM -0600, Moger, Babu wrote:
>>>  
>>> +extern unsigned int snc_nodes_per_l3_cache;
>>
>> I feel this can be part of rdt_resource instead of global.
> 
> Mixed emotions about that. It would be another field that appears
> in every instance of rdt_resource, but only used by the RDT_RESOURCE_L3_MON
> copy.
> 
That was the comment I got earlier for my patches(search for global).

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/47f870e0-ad1a-4a4d-9d9e-4c05bf431858@intel.com/
-- 
Thanks
Babu Moger