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Message-ID: <ZhfwLunw/CFCekr8@e133380.arm.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:14:06 +0100
From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Rex Nie <rex.nie@...uarmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 02/31] x86/resctrl: Add a helper to avoid reaching
 into the arch code resource list

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 08:13:58PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> On 3/21/2024 9:50 AM, James Morse wrote:
> > Resctrl occasionally wants to know something about a specific resource,
> > in these cases it reaches into the arch code's rdt_resources_all[]
> > array.
> > 
> > Once the filesystem parts of resctrl are moved to /fs/, this means it
> > will need visibility of the architecture specific struct
> > resctrl_hw_resource definition, and the array of all resources.
> 
> rdt_hw_resource?

Looks like it.  Noted for James' attention.


> > All architectures would also need a r_resctrl member in this struct.
> > 
> > Instead, abstract this via a helper to allow architectures to do
> > different things here. Move the level enum to the resctrl header and
> > add a helper to retrieve the struct rdt_resource by 'rid'.
> > 
> > resctrl_arch_get_resource() should not return NULL for any value in
> > the enum, it may instead return a dummy resource that is
> > !alloc_enabled && !mon_enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> > ---
> 
> Patch looks good to me.
> 
> Reinette
> 

Noted, thanks.

Cheers
---Dave

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