Re: [PATCH v11 20/31] fs/resctrl: Refactor Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) in mkdir/rmdir code flow

["Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2025 at 05:16:00PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On 10/9/25 3:08 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> >> I did not mean to imply that this can be supported without refactoring. It does
> >> seem as though you agree that mon_data::sum may be used for something
> >> other than SNC and thus that using mon_data::sum as a check for SNC is not ideal.
> > 
> > Reinette,
> > 
> > Yes, we are in agreement about non-SNC future usage.
> > 
> > Is it sufficient that I plant some WARN_ON_ONCE() in places where the
> > code assumes that mon_data::sum is only used by RDT_RESOURCE_L3
> > or for SNC?
> 
> From what I understand this series does this already? I think this only applies to
> rdtgroup_mondata_show() that does below ("L3 specific" comments added by me just for this example)
> in this series:
> 
> 	rdtgroup_mondata_show() 
> 	{
> 		...
> 		if (md->sum) {
> 			struct rdt_l3_mon_domain *d;
> 
> 			if (WARN_ON_ONCE(resid != RDT_RESOURCE_L3)) {

Exactly what I now have.
> 				...
My "..." is:
				return -EINVAL;
> 			}
> 
> 			list_for_each_entry(d, &r->mon_domains, hdr.list) {
> 				if (d->ci_id == domid) { /* L3 specific field */
> 					...
> 					/* L3 specific */
> 					ci = get_cpu_cacheinfo_level(cpu, RESCTRL_L3_CACHE);
> 				}
> 			}
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> This seems reasonable since the flow is different from the typical "check resource"
> followed by a domain_header_is_valid() that a refactor to support another resource
> would probably do as you state below.

I looked around to see if there were any other places that needed this,
but they all have checks for RDT_RESOURCE_L3 by the end of the series.
I've added a check in __mon_event_count() in patch 13 that gets deleted
in patch 18 when the L3 code is split out into a separate function.

> > 
> > Such code can be fixed by future patches that want to use mon_data::sum
> > for other things.
> 
> This discussion digressed a bit. The discussion started with a request to add a check
> for the L3 resource before calling rmdir_mondata_subdir_allrdtgrp_snc(). 
> I see this as something like:
> 	if (r->rid == RDT_RESOURCE_L3 && r->mon_scope == RESCTRL_L3_NODE) {

I'll add this. Same is needed in mkdir_mondata_subdir().

> 		rmdir_mondata_subdir_allrdtgrp_snc(r, hdr);
> 		...
> 	}
> 
> I understand that rmdir_mondata_subdir_allrdtgrp_snc() may look something like below
> but I still find the flow easier to follow if a resource check is done before calling
> rmdir_mondata_subdir_allrdtgrp_snc().
> 
> 	rmdir_mondata_subdir_allrdtgrp_snc(r, hdr)
> 	{
> 		if (!domain_header_is_valid(hdr, RESCTRL_MON_DOMAIN, RDT_RESOURCE_L3))
>                 return -EINVAL;
> 
> 	        d = container_of(hdr, struct rdt_l3_mon_domain, hdr);
> 		...
> 
> 	}
> 
> Reinette

-Tony