RE: [PATCH 7/7] x86/resctrl: Determine if Sub-NUMA Cluster is enabled and initialize.

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Feb 28 2023 - 15:40:14 EST


Babu wrote:
> I am thinking loud here. Have you thought of addressing this problem?
> When a new monitor group is created, new RMID is assigned. This is done by alloc_rmid. It does not know about the rmid_offset details. This will allocate the one of the free RMIDs.
> When CPUs are assigned to the group, then per cpu  pqr_state is updated. At that point, this RMID becomes default_rmid for that cpu.

Good point. This is a gap. I haven't handled assigning CPUs to resctrl groups when SNC is enabled.

I'm not sure this has a solution :-(

-Tony