Re: [PATCH 00/12] Cqm2: Intel Cache quality monitoring fixes

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jan 19 2017 - 13:45:58 EST


On Thu, 19 Jan 2017, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> A 1:1 mapping between CLOSID/"Resource group" to RMID, as Fenghua suggested
> is very problematic because the number of CLOSIDs is much much smaller than the
> number of RMIDs, and, as Stephane mentioned it's a common use case to want to
> independently monitor many task/cgroups inside an allocation partition.

Again, that was not my intention. I just want to limit the combinations.

> A 1:many mapping of CLOSID to RMIDs may work as a cheap replacement of
> cgroup monitoring but the case where CLOSID changes would be messy. In

CLOSIDs of RDT groups do not change. They are allocated when the group is
created.

Thanks,

tglx