Re: [PATCH v12 06/10] fs/resctrl: Add user interface to enable/disable io_alloc feature

[Reinette Chatre]

Hi Babu,

On 11/20/25 10:35 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
> Hi Reinette,
> 
> On 11/12/25 18:57, Babu Moger wrote:
>> AMD's SDCIAE forces all SDCI lines to be placed into the L3 cache portions
>> identified by the highest-supported L3_MASK_n register, where n is the
>> maximum supported CLOSID.
>>
>> To support AMD's SDCIAE, when io_alloc resctrl feature is enabled, reserve
>> the highest CLOSID exclusively for I/O allocation traffic making it no
>> longer available for general CPU cache allocation.
>>
>> Introduce user interface to enable/disable io_alloc feature and encourage
>> users to enable io_alloc only when running workloads that can benefit from
>> this functionality. On enable, initialize the io_alloc CLOSID with all
>> usable CBMs across all the domains.
>>
>> Since CLOSIDs are managed by resctrl fs, it is least invasive to make
>> "io_alloc is supported by maximum supported CLOSID" part of the initial
>> resctrl fs support for io_alloc. Take care to minimally (only in error
>> messages) expose this use of CLOSID for io_alloc to user space so that this
>> is not required from other architectures that may support io_alloc
>> differently in the future.
>>
>> When resctrl is mounted with "-o cdp" to enable code/data prioritization,
>> there are two L3 resources that can support I/O allocation: L3CODE and
>> L3DATA.  From resctrl fs perspective the two resources share a CLOSID and
>> the architecture's available CLOSID are halved to support this.  The
>> architecture's underlying CLOSID used by SDCIAE when CDP is enabled is the
>> CLOSID associated with the CDP_CODE resource, but from resctrl's perspective
>> there is only one CLOSID for both CDP_CODE and CDP_DATA. CDP_DATA is thus
>> not usable for general (CPU) cache allocation nor I/O allocation. Keep the
>> CDP_CODE and CDP_DATA I/O alloc status in sync to avoid any confusion to
>> user space. That is, enabling io_alloc on CDP_CODE does so on CDP_DATA and
>> vice-versa, and keep the I/O allocation CBMs of CDP_CODE and CDP_DATA in
>> sync.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v12: Minor format fix in resctrl.rst.
>>       Added text about writable files in the info section.
>>       Removed Reviewed-by tag from Reinette as there are some new text changes from Dave.
> 
> Only this patch needs "Reviewed-by" tag.
> 
> Gentle reminder with upcoming holidays.

Thank you. I just added my "Reviewed-by" tag.

> 
> Hoping this series will be queued for next merge window.
> 

I think it is getting late for new things.

Reinette