Re: [PATCH v8 08/25] x86/resctrl: Introduce interface to display number of monitoring counters

From: Reinette Chatre
Date: Mon Oct 14 2024 - 12:46:16 EST


Hi Tony,

On 10/11/24 2:36 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 03:49:48PM -0500, Moger, Babu wrote:
>
> I.e. the user who chose this simply gave up being able to
> read total bandwidth on domain 1, but didn't get an extra
> counter in exchange for this sacrifice. That doesn't seem
> like a good deal.

As Babu mentioned earlier, this seems equivalent to the existing
CLOSid management. For example, if a user assigns only CPUs
from one domain to a resource group, it does not free up the
CLOSID to create a new resource group dedicated to other domain(s).

Reinette