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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 20 Jan 2019 17:16:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 05/13] Documentation/ABI: Add new node sysfs attributes
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 10:01 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 01:08:02PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:41 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:59 PM Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add entries for memory initiator and target node class attributes.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> > >
> > > I would recommend combining this with the previous patch, as the way
> > > it is now I need to look at two patches at the time. :-)
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > >  Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > > >  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> > > > index 3e90e1f3bf0a..a9c47b4b0eee 100644
> > > > --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> > > > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
> > > > @@ -90,4 +90,27 @@ Date:                December 2009
> > > >  Contact:       Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
> > > >  Description:
> > > >                 The node's huge page size control/query attributes.
> > > > -               See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> > > > \ No newline at end of file
> > > > +               See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> > > > +
> > > > +What:          /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/classY/
> > > > +Date:          December 2018
> > > > +Contact:       Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> > > > +Description:
> > > > +               The node's relationship to other nodes for access class "Y".
> > > > +
> > > > +What:          /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/classY/initiator_nodelist
> > > > +Date:          December 2018
> > > > +Contact:       Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> > > > +Description:
> > > > +               The node list of memory initiators that have class "Y" access
> > > > +               to this node's memory. CPUs and other memory initiators in
> > > > +               nodes not in the list accessing this node's memory may have
> > > > +               different performance.
> > >
> > > This does not follow the general "one value per file" rule of sysfs (I
> > > know that there are other sysfs files with more than one value in
> > > them, but it is better to follow this rule as long as that makes
> > > sense).
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +What:          /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/classY/target_nodelist
> > > > +Date:          December 2018
> > > > +Contact:       Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> > > > +Description:
> > > > +               The node list of memory targets that this initiator node has
> > > > +               class "Y" access. Memory accesses from this node to nodes not
> > > > +               in this list may have differet performance.
> > > > --
> > >
> > > Same here.
> > >
> > > And if you follow the recommendation given in the previous message
> > > (add "initiators" and "targets" subdirs under "classX"), you won't
> > > even need the two files above.
> >
> > This recommendation is in conflict with Greg's feedback about kobject
> > usage. If these are just "vanity" subdirs I think it's better to have
> > a multi-value sysfs file. This "list" style is already commonplace for
> > the /sys/devices/system hierarchy.
>
> If you do a subdirectory "correctly" (i.e. a name for an attribute
> group), that's fine.

Yes, that's what I was thinking about: along the lines of the "power"
group under device kobjects.

Cheers,
Rafael