Re: [PATCH v5 20/20] x86/resctrl: Introduce interface to modify assignment states of the groups

[Moger, Babu]

Hi Peter,

On 7/25/24 12:11, Peter Newman wrote:
> Hi Babu,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 6:23 PM Moger, Babu <bmoger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On 7/24/2024 7:03 PM, Peter Newman wrote:
>>> Hi Babu,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 2:51 PM Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Introduce the interface to enable events in ABMC mode.
>>>>
>>>> Events can be enabled or disabled by writing to file
>>>> /sys/fs/resctrl/info/L3_MON/mbm_control
>>>>
>>>> Format is similar to the list format with addition of op-code for the
>>>> assignment operation.
>>>>   "<CTRL_MON group>/<MON group>/<op-code><flags>"
>>>>
>>>> Format for specific type of groups:
>>>>
>>>>   * Default CTRL_MON group:
>>>>           "//<domain_id><op-code><flags>"
>>>>
>>>>   * Non-default CTRL_MON group:
>>>>           "<CTRL_MON group>//<domain_id><op-code><flags>"
>>>>
>>>>   * Child MON group of default CTRL_MON group:
>>>>           "/<MON group>/<domain_id><op-code><flags>"
>>>>
>>>>   * Child MON group of non-default CTRL_MON group:
>>>>           "<CTRL_MON group>/<MON group>/<domain_id><op-code><flags>"
>>>
>>> Just a reminder, Reinette and I had discussed[1] omitting the
>>> domain_id for performing the same operation on all domains.
>>
>> Yes. I remember. Lets refresh our memory.
>>>
>>> I would really appreciate this, otherwise our most typical operations
>>> could be really tedious and needlessly serialized.
>>
>>>
>>> # cat mbm_control
>>> //0=tl;1=tl;2=tl;3=tl;4=tl;5=tl;6=tl;7=tl;8=tl;9=tl;10=tl;11=tl;12=tl;13=tl;14=tl;15=tl;16=tl;17=tl;18=tl;19=tl;20=tl;21=tl;22=tl;23=tl;24=tl;25=tl;26=tl;27=tl;28=tl;29=tl;30=tl;31=tl;
>>> # echo '//-l' > mbm_control
>>
>> What is the expectation here?
>> You want to unassign local event on all the domains?
> 
> Correct.
> 
>>
>> Domain id makes it easy to parse the command. Without that it parsing
>> code becomes  messy.
>>
>> How about something like this? We can use the max domain id to mean all
>> the domains. In the above case there are 32 domains(0-31). 32 is total
>> number of domains. We can get that details looking through all the
>> domains. We can print that detail when we list it.
> 
> This sounds like only a minor simplification to the parsing code. It
> seems like it would be easy to determine if the final '/' is
> immediately followed by an opcode (+-=_) rather than a number.

Ok. Will try to get that working. Will let you know if there are
complexities with that.--
Thanks
Babu Moger