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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/13] x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to new
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On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> Is there any other resource handled than caches by RDT or by the AMD 
> variant?

Memory bandwidth.

> So how about "cache_control"? It's shorter and a lot closer to what the 
> code actually does.
> 
> > resource_control/ is kinda long-ish and the other names we have there
> > are nice and short, see below.

resctrl is short and good enough. Can we move on an care about technical
problems rather than wasting time with bike shed painting?

Thanks,

	tglx