Re: [PATCH 19/21] x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)

[Shivappa Vikas]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&r->evt_list);

        if (rdt_mon_features & (1 << QOS_L3_OCCUP_EVENT_ID))
                list_add_tail(&llc_occupancy_event.list, &r->evt_list);
+       if (is_mbm_total_enabled())
+               list_add_tail(&mbm_total_event.list, &r->evt_list);
+       if (is_mbm_local_enabled())
+               list_add_tail(&mbm_local_event.list, &r->evt_list);

Confused. This hooks all monitoring features to RDT_RESOURCE_L3. Why?

They are really L3 resource events as per the spec.
CPUID.(EAX=0FH, ECX=0):EDX.L3[bit 1] = 1 if L3 monitoring and we query for all 
the llc_occupancy, l3 total and local b/w with the same resource id 1.


Thanks,

        tglx