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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/13] x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to new
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* Moger, Babu <Babu.Moger@amd.com> wrote:

> New generation of AMD processors start supporting RDT(or QOS)
> features. Together these features will be called as RESCTRL.
> With more than one vendors supporting these features, it seems
> more appropriate to rename these files.
> 
> Create a new directory with the name 'resctrl' and move all the
> intel_rdt files to the new directory. This way all the resctrl
> related code resides inside one directory.
> 
> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
> ---
>  .../x86/include/asm/{intel_rdt_sched.h => resctrl_sched.h} | 0
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile                               | 5 +----
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile                       | 7 +++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.c => resctrl/core.c}        | 4 ++--
>  .../cpu/{intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c => resctrl/ctrlmondata.c} | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.h => resctrl/internal.h}    | 6 +++---
>  .../kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_monitor.c => resctrl/monitor.c}  | 2 +-
>  .../cpu/{intel_rdt_pseudo_lock.c => resctrl/pseudo_lock.c} | 6 +++---
>  .../pseudo_lock_event.h}                                   | 2 +-
>  .../cpu/{intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c => resctrl/rdtgroup.c}       | 4 ++--
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c                               | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c                               | 2 +-
>  12 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>  rename arch/x86/include/asm/{intel_rdt_sched.h => resctrl_sched.h} (100%)
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.c => resctrl/core.c} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_ctrlmondata.c => resctrl/ctrlmondata.c} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt.h => resctrl/internal.h} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_monitor.c => resctrl/monitor.c} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_pseudo_lock.c => resctrl/pseudo_lock.c} (99%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_pseudo_lock_event.h => resctrl/pseudo_lock_event.h} (95%)
>  rename arch/x86/kernel/cpu/{intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c => resctrl/rdtgroup.c} (99%)

Ugh, violent NAK on this unreadable directory naming: 'resctrl' is an 
ugly double/triple abbreviation that nobody recognizes for what it is to 
begin with, and even the long form 'resource control' is an overly 
generic naming - *everything* the kernel does is in essence 'resource 
control' ...

So please find some better name and standardize the namespace around it. 
A couple of suggestions:

 -    'Hardware Quality of Service', i.e. HW_QOS, hw_qos
 - or 'CPU bandwidth control',       i.e. CPU_BW, cpu_bw
 - or 'Hardware Bandwidth Control',  i.e. HW_BW,  hw_bw

etc.

Thanks,

	ngo