RE: [PATCH v11 06/22] base/node / acpi: Change 'node_hmem_attrs' to 'access_coordinates'

[Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>]

Dave Jiang wrote:
> Dan Williams suggested changing the struct 'node_hmem_attrs' to
> 'access_coordinates' [1]. The struct is a container of r/w-latency and
> r/w-bandwidth numbers. Moving forward, this container will also be used by
> CXL to store the performance characteristics of each link hop in
> the PCIE/CXL topology. So, where node_hmem_attrs is just the access
> parameters of a memory-node, access_coordinates applies more broadly
> to hardware topology characteristics. The observation is that seemed like
> an excercise in having the application identify "where" it falls on a
> spectrum of bandwidth and latency needs. For the tuple of read/write-latency
> and read/write-bandwidth, "coordinates" is not a perfect fit. Sometimes it
> is just conveying values in isolation and not a "location" relative to
> other performance points, but in the end this data is used to identify the
> performance operation point of a given memory-node. [2]
> 
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/64471313421f7_1b66294d5@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/645e6215ee0de_1e6f2945e@dwillia2-xfh.jf.intel.com.notmuch/
> Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This collides and the other drivers/acpi/numa/hmat.c collide massively
with the work pending in Andrew's tree. This will need to circle back
next cycle.