Re: [PATCH v11 11/23] x86/resctrl: Introduce mbm_cntr_cfg to track assignable counters at domain

From: Reinette Chatre
Date: Mon Feb 10 2025 - 13:10:44 EST


Hi Babu,

On 2/7/25 10:23 AM, Moger, Babu wrote:
> On 2/5/2025 5:57 PM, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>> On 1/22/25 12:20 PM, Babu Moger wrote:
>>
>>> to a particular monitoring group. Check every entry of every hardware
>>> counter    configuration array in every monitoring domain to query which
>>
>> ... one more \t above
>
> Sure
>
>>
>>> MBM events of a monitoring group is tracked by hardware. Such queries
>>> are acceptable because of a very small number of assignable counters.
>>
>> It is not obvious what "very small number" means. Is it possible to give
>> a range to help reader understand the motivation?
>
> How about?
>
> MBM events of a monitoring group is tracked by hardware. Such queries
> are acceptable because of a very small number of assignable counters(32 to 64).

Yes, thank you. This helps to understand the claim.

Reinette