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Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:38:59 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 13/22] x86/intel_rdt: Support schemata write -
 pseudo-locking core
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> > Moving to "exclusive" mode it appears that, when enabled for a resource
> > group, all domains of all resources are forced to have an "exclusive"
> > region associated with this resource group (closid). This is because the
> > schemata reflects the hardware settings of all resources and their
> > domains and the hardware does not accept a "zero" bitmask. A user thus
> > cannot just specify a single region of a particular cache instance as
> > "exclusive". Does this match your intention wrt "exclusive"?
> 
> Interesting question. I really did not think about that yet. 

Actually we could solve that problem similar to the locked one and share
most of the functionality:

mkdir group
echo exclusive > mode
echo L3:0 > restrict

and for locked:

mkdir group
echo locksetup > mode
echo L2:0 > restrict
echo 'L2:0=0xf' > schemata
echo locked > mode

The 'restrict' file (feel free to come up with a better name) is only
available/writeable in exclusive and locksetup mode. In case of exclusive
mode it can contain several domains/resources, but in locked mode its only
allowed to contain a single domain/resource.

A write to schemata for exclusive or locksetup mode will apply the
exclusiveness restrictions only to the resources/domains selected in the
'restrict' file. 

Thanks,

	tglx