RE: [PATCH v20 00/18] Add support for Sub-NUMA cluster (SNC) systems

Luck, Tony
2024-06-14T21:40:13Z

> We have ctrl_scope, mon_scope, ctrl_domains. mon_domains. Only one
> resource, RDT_RESOURCE_L3 is going to use these fields. Rest of the
> resources don't need these fields. But these fields are part of all the
> resources.
>
> I am not too worried about the size of the patch. But, I don't foresee
> these fields will be used anytime soon in these resources(MBA. L3.
> SMBA). Why add it now? In future we may have to cleanup all these anyways.

Babu,

I mentioned yesterday that future patches could split struct rdt_resource. I was noodling
at doing so back in February. Patches (messy, not finished or fit for consumption) are
here (just to give you an idea where things might build from here):

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git rdt_split_resource

-Tony