RE: [PATCH v20 00/18] Add support for Sub-NUMA cluster (SNC) systems

[Luck, Tony]

> We have ctrl_scope, mon_scope, ctrl_domains. mon_domains.  Only one 
> resource, RDT_RESOURCE_L3 is going to use these fields. Rest of the 
> resources don't need these fields. But these fields are part of all the 
> resources.
>
> I am not too worried about the size of the patch.  But, I don't foresee 
> these fields will be used anytime soon in these resources(MBA. L3. 
> SMBA). Why add it now? In future we may have to cleanup all these anyways.

Babu,

I mentioned yesterday that future patches could split struct rdt_resource. I was noodling
at doing so back in February. Patches (messy, not finished or fit for consumption) are
here (just to give you an idea where things might build from here):

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux.git rdt_split_resource

-Tony