RE: [PATCH 4/4] selftests/resctrl: Adjust SNC support messages

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Mar 18 2024 - 16:47:55 EST


> What is the use case for needing to expose the individual cluster counts? What if
> resctrl just summed the cluster counts and presented the data as before - per L3
> cache instance? I doubt that resctrl would be what applications would use to verify
> whether they are "well behaved" wrt NUMA.

Reinette,

My (perhaps naïve) belief is that in a cloud server environment there are many
well behaved NUMA applications. Only presenting the sum would lose the detailed
information from each SNC node.

-Tony