Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/resctrl: Support CPUID enumeration of MBM counter width

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:42:03AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> This would essentially be resubmitting [1] though. Do you expect that
> this change would receive a different reception at this time?

Right, Thomas and I talked it over a bit last night. So the proper
thing to do is to read all that information *once* and put it in
boot_cpu_data. Because that information is replicated the same over
CPUID on each core. If there's per-CPU stuff, then it should remain
per-CPU but looking at how the RDT code uses boot_cpu_data, I'd say this
is global info.

So, it should be parsed once on the BSP during boot and put into
boot_cpu_data. And then silly stuff like x86_init_cache_qos() should go
away too.

If this info is needed on Intel only, then it should be parsed in
cpu/intel.c, in a ->c_bsp_init helper and if it is needed on AMD too,
then a function which does this should be called by the respective
c_bsp_init helper.

Then all its users can continue reading it out of boot_cpu_data and
future RDT hw info can be added there.

Makes sense?

Thx.

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    Boris.

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