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Message-ID: <f82f26ef-39b8-44b8-b866-aaeb0f520e1e@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:12:58 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, Maciej
Wieczor-Retman <maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>, Peter Newman
<peternewman@...gle.com>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>, Babu Moger
<babu.moger@....com>, Drew Fustini <dfustini@...libre.com>, Dave Martin
<Dave.Martin@....com>
CC: <x86@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<patches@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 01/18] x86/resctrl: Prepare for new domain scope
Hi Tony,
On 6/10/24 11:35 AM, Tony Luck wrote:
> Resctrl resources operate on subsets of CPUs in the system with the
> defining attribute of each subset being an instance of a particular
> level of cache. E.g. all CPUs sharing an L3 cache would be part of the
> same domain.
>
> In preparation for features that are scoped at the NUMA node level
> change the code from explicit references to "cache_level" to a more
> generic scope. At this point the only options for this scope are groups
> of CPUs that share an L2 cache or L3 cache.
>
> Clean up the error handling when looking up domains. Report invalid id's
> before calling rdt_find_domain() in preparation for better messages when
> scope can be other than cache scope. This means that rdt_find_domain()
> will never return an error. So remove checks for error from the callsites.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Reinette
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