linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v11 00/23] x86/resctrl : Support AMD Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters (ABMC)

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:11:13 +0000
From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v11 00/23] x86/resctrl : Support AMD Assignable Bandwidth
 Monitoring Counters (ABMC)

> I do not think that resctrl's current support of the mbm_total_bytes and
> mbm_local_bytes should be considered as the "only" two available "slots"
> into which all possible events should be forced into. "mon_features" exists
> to guide user space to which events are supported and as I see it new events
> can be listed here to inform user space of their availability, with their
> associated event files available in the resource groups.

100%  I have a number of "events" in the pipeline that do not fit these
names. I'm planning on new files with descriptive[1] names for the events
they report.

-Tony

[1] When these are ready to post we can discuss the names I chose and
change them if there are better names that work across architectures.