Re: [PATCH v2 23/33] x86/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c: User interface for RDT

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Sep 08 2016 - 11:01:47 EST


On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> We introduce a new resctrl file system mounted under /sys/fs/resctrl.
> User uses this file system to control resource allocation.
>
> Hiearchy of the file system is as follows:
> /sys/fs/resctrl/info/info
> /<resource0>/<resource0 specific info files>
> /<resource1>/<resource1 specific info files>
> ....
> /tasks
> /cpus
> /schemata
> /sub-dir1
> /sub-dir2
> ....
>
> User can specify which task uses which schemata for resource allocation.
>
> More details can be found in Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/intel_rdt.h | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_rdt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_rdt.h
> index 85beecc..aaed4b4 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_rdt.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel_rdt.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ struct cache_domain {
> unsigned int shared_cache_id[MAX_CACHE_DOMAINS];
> };
>
> +extern struct cache_domain cache_domains[MAX_CACHE_LEAVES];
> +

This patch split is so annoying it's not even funny anymore.