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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:47:44AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> So again: 
> 
>   Can please everyone involved write up their specific requirements
>   for CQM and stop spamming us with half baken design proposals?
> 
>   And I mean abstract requirements and not again something which is
>   referring to existing crap or some desired crap.
> 
> The complete list of requirements has to be agreed on before we talk about
> anything else.

So something along the lines of:

 A) need to create a (named) group of tasks
   1) group composition needs to be dynamic; ie. we can add/remove member
      tasks at any time.
   2) a task can only belong to _one_ group at any one time.
   3) grouping need not be hierarchical?

 B) for each group, we need to set a CAT mask
   1) this CAT mask must be dynamic; ie. we can, during the existence of
      the group, change the mask at any time.

 C) for each group, we need to monitor CQM bits
   1) this monitor need not change


Supporting Use-Cases:

A.1: The Job (or VM) can have a dynamic task set
B.1: Dynamic QoS for each Job (or VM) as demand / load changes



Feel free to expand etc..