Re: [PATCH v8:for-boris 08/30] x86/resctrl: Generate default_ctrl instead of sharing it

[Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

Hi James,

On 3/11/25 11:36 AM, James Morse wrote:
> The struct rdt_resource default_ctrl is used by both the architecture
> code for resetting the hardware controls, and sometimes by the
> filesystem code as the default value for the schema, unless the
> bandwidth software controller is in use.
> 
> Having the default exposed by the architecture code causes unnecessary
> duplication for each architecture as the default value must be specified,
> but can be derived from other schema properties. Now that the
> maximum bandwidth is explicitly described, resctrl can derive the default
> value from the schema format and the other resource properties.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Carl Worth <carl@os.amperecomputing.com> # arm64
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
> Tested-by: Amit Singh Tomar <amitsinght@marvell.com> # arm64
> Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni <sdonthineni@nvidia.com> # arm64
> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>

Reinette