linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 11/29] x86,fs/resctrl: Rename struct rdt_mon_domain and rdt_hw_mon

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Message-ID: <22de7c9a-10bb-40c6-b4ad-a371e9630b5e@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 20:40:44 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@...dia.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>, Anil Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
CC: <x86@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<patches@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 11/29] x86,fs/resctrl: Rename struct rdt_mon_domain and
 rdt_hw_mon_domain

Hi Tony,

On 5/21/25 3:50 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> Historically all monitoring events have been associated with the L3
> resource. This will change when support for telemetry events is added.
> 
> The structures to track monitor domains at both the file system and
> architecture level have generic names. This may cause confusion when
> support for monitoring events in other resources is added.
> 
> Rename by adding "l3_" into the names:
> rdt_mon_domain		-> rdt_l3_mon_domain
> rdt_hw_mon_domain	-> rdt_hw_l3_mon_domain
> 
> No functional change.
> 

Related to question in patch #7 about criteria used to
decide which functions to rename to be L3 specific: This patch highlights
that there are many functions that take a L3 resource specific structure as
parameter yet the function names are not changed as part of the work in
patch #7. 

Reinette