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We could hope (or perhaps update the spec to define) that >> region0 is always node-local DDR memory and keep the "MB" tag for >> that. > > Do you have concerns about existing software choking on the #-prefixed > lines? I am trying to understand the purpose of the #-prefix. I see two motivations for the #-prefix with the primary point that multiple schema apply to the same resource. 1) Commented schema are "inactive" This is unclear to me. In the MB example the commented lines show the finer grained controls. Since the original MB resource is an approximation and the hardware must already be configured to support it, would the #-prefixed lines not show the actual "active" configuration? 2) Commented schema are "conflicting" The original proposal mentioned "write them back instead of (or in addition to) the conflicting entries". I do not know how resctrl will be able to handle a user requesting a change to both "MB" and "MB_HW". This seems like something that should fail? On a high level it is not clear to me why the # prefix is needed. As I understand the schemata names will always be unique and the new features made backward compatible to existing schemata names. That is, existing MB, L3, etc. will also have the new info files that describe their values/ranges. I expect that user space will ignore schema that it is not familiar with so the # prefix seems unnecessary? I believe the motivation is to express a relationship between different schema (you mentioned "shadow" initially). I think this relationship can be expressed clearly by using a namespace prefix (like "MB_" in the examples). This may help more when there are multiple schemata with this format where a #-prefix does not make obvious which resource is shadowed. >> Then use some other tag naming for other regions. Remote DDR, >> local CXL, remote CXL are the ones we think are next in the h/w >> memory sequence. But the "region" concept would allow for other >> options as other memory technologies come into use. > > Would it be reasnable just to have a set of these schema instances, per > region, so: > > MB_HW: ... // implicitly region 0 > MB_HW_1: ... > MB_HW_2: ... > > etc. > > Or, did you have something else in mind? > > My thinking is that we avoid adding complexity in the schemata file if > we treat mapping these schema instances onto the hardware topology as > an orthogonal problem. So long as we have unique names in the schemata > file, we can describe elsewhere what they relate to in the hardware. Agreed ... and "elsewhere" is expected to be unique depending on the resource. Reinette