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Re: [PATCH v6 12/15] xen/arm: add Xen cache colors command line parameter


  • To: Carlo Nonato <carlo.nonato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 16:10:44 +0100
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  • Delivery-date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:10:53 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On 29.01.2024 18:18, Carlo Nonato wrote:
> --- a/xen/common/llc-coloring.c
> +++ b/xen/common/llc-coloring.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
>  #include <xen/llc-coloring.h>
>  #include <xen/param.h>
>  
> +#define XEN_DEFAULT_COLOR       0
> +#define XEN_DEFAULT_NUM_COLORS  1
> +
>  bool __ro_after_init llc_coloring_enabled;
>  boolean_param("llc-coloring", llc_coloring_enabled);
>  
> @@ -21,6 +24,9 @@ static unsigned int __ro_after_init max_nr_colors = 
> CONFIG_NR_LLC_COLORS;
>  static unsigned int __initdata dom0_colors[CONFIG_NR_LLC_COLORS];
>  static unsigned int __initdata dom0_num_colors;
>  
> +static unsigned int __ro_after_init xen_colors[CONFIG_NR_LLC_COLORS];

So unlike for Dom0 here you use the static buffer at runtime.

> +static unsigned int __ro_after_init xen_num_colors;

Taken together, I don't see the value in having XEN_DEFAULT_COLOR:
One can't simply change it and XEN_DEFAULT_NUM_COLORS to have Xen have,
say, 4 colors by default. I think you want to have xen_colors[] have
an initializer, with XEN_DEFAULT_COLOR dropped and XEN_DEFAULT_NUM_COLORS
moved. Or you actually allocate the runtime buffer if a command line
option is found, and just use ARRAY_SIZE() as the default count.

Jan



 


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