> From: Thomas Gleixner [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 6:07 AM > To: Yu, Fenghua <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>; Anvin, H Peter > <[email protected]>; Luck, Tony <[email protected]>; Tejun Heo > <[email protected]>; Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>; Stephane Eranian > <[email protected]>; Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>; Marcelo > Tosatti <[email protected]>; David Carrillo-Cisneros > <[email protected]>; Shankar, Ravi V <[email protected]>; Vikas > Shivappa <[email protected]>; Prakhya, Sai Praneeth > <[email protected]>; linux-kernel <linux- > [email protected]>; x86 <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/32] x86/intel_rdt.c: Extend RDT to per cache and per > resources > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > > From: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]> > > > > QoS mask MSRs array is per cache. We need to allocate CLOSID per cache > > instead global CLOSID. > > > > A few different resources can share same QoS mask MSRs array. For > > example, one L2 cache can share QoS MSRs with its next level > > L3 cache. A domain number represents the L2 cache, the L3 cache, the > > L2 cache's shared cpumask, and the L3 cache's shared cpumask. > > > > cctable is extended to be index by domain number so that each cache > > has its own control table. > > > > shared_domain is introduced to cover multiple resources sharing > > CLOSID. > > This patch does a dozen different things at once. Can you please split the > cleanup parts, the parts where statics are removed and the actual changes in > the representation model apart so this can be reviewed? > > And while at this, please fold back thes cleanups into the original patches. > There is no point to have these changes seperate.
Sure. Will do this. Thanks. -Fenghua
