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

[Moger, Babu]

On 6/14/2024 4:40 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > 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

I see, it is similar to splitting the resource (option a. v15-RFC) and 
little more. I think we should move to that direction eventually.
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Babu Moger