Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] perf: Add SNOOP_PEER flag to perf mem data struct

[Leo Yan]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 05:53:28AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > Except SNOOPX_FWD means a no modified cache snooping, it also means it's
> > a cache conherency from *remote* socket.  This is quite different from we
> > define SNOOPX_PEER, which only snoop from peer CPU or clusters.
> > 
> > If no objection, I prefer we could keep the new snoop type SNOOPX_PEER,
> > this would be easier for us to distinguish the semantics and support the
> > statistics for SNOOPX_FWD and SNOOPX_PEER separately.
> > 
> > I overlooked the flag SNOOPX_FWD, thanks a lot for Kan's reminding.
> 
> Yes seems better to keep using a separate flag if they don't exactly match.
> 
> It's not that we're short on flags anyways.

Thanks for confirmation.

Leo