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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:09:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shivappa Vikas <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] x86/intel_rct/mba: Add MBA structures and initialize
 MBA
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
>>
>>  /**
>> + * struct rdt_domain - group of cpus sharing an RDT resource
>> + * @list:	all instances of this resource
>> + * @id:		unique id for this instance
>> + * @cpu_mask:	which cpus share this resource
>> + * @ctrl_val:	array of cache or mem ctrl values (indexed by CLOSID)
>> + * @new_cbm:	new cbm value to be loaded
>> + * @have_new_cbm: did user provide new_cbm for this domain
>
> The version which you removed below has the kernel-doc comments correct ....

Will fix

>
>> +/**
>>   * struct rdt_resource - attributes of an RDT resource
>>   * @enabled:			Is this feature enabled on this machine
>>   * @capable:			Is this feature available on this machine
>> @@ -78,6 +109,16 @@ struct rftype {
>>   * @data_width:		Character width of data when displaying
>>   * @min_cbm_bits:		Minimum number of consecutive bits to be set
>>   *				in a cache bit mask
>> + * @msr_update:		Function pointer to update QOS MSRs
>> + * @max_delay:			Max throttle delay. Delay is the hardware
>> + *				understandable value for memory bandwidth.
>> + * @min_bw:			Minimum memory bandwidth percentage user
>> + *				can request
>> + * @bw_gran:			Granularity at which the memory bandwidth
>> + *				is allocated
>> + * @delay_linear:		True if memory b/w delay is in linear scale
>> + * @mb_map:			Mapping of memory b/w percentage to
>> + *				memory b/w delay values
>>   * @domains:			All domains for this resource
>>   * @msr_base:			Base MSR address for CBMs
>>   * @cache_level:		Which cache level defines scope of this domain
>> @@ -94,6 +135,14 @@ struct rdt_resource {
>>  	int			min_cbm_bits;
>>  	u32			default_ctrl;
>>  	int			data_width;
>> +	void (*msr_update)	(struct rdt_domain *d, struct msr_param *m,
>> +				 struct rdt_resource *r);
>> +	u32			max_delay;
>> +	u32			min_bw;
>> +	u32			bw_gran;
>> +	u32			delay_linear;
>> +	u32			*mb_map;
>
> I don't know what other weird controls will be added over time, but we are
> probably better off to have
>
> struct cache_ctrl {
> 	int		cbm_len;
> 	int		min_cbm_bits;
> };
>
> struct mba_ctrl {
> 	u32			max_delay;
> 	u32			min_bw;
> 	u32			bw_gran;
> 	u32			delay_linear;
> 	u32			*mb_map;
> };
>
> and in then in struct rdt_resource:
>
>       <common fields>
>       union {
>       		struct cache_ctrl	foo;
> 		struct mba_ctrl		bla;
> 	} ctrl;
>
>
> That avoids that rdt_resource becomes a hodgepodge of unrelated or even
> contradicting fields.
>
> Hmm?

Ok, makes sense. Will fix. Thought of a union when i had added a couple fields 
and given up but its grown a lot now.

Thanks,
Vikas

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>