diff --git a/src/conf/capabilities.c b/src/conf/capabilities.c
index 798c9bdaea..e93eaed2f0 100644
--- a/src/conf/capabilities.c
+++ b/src/conf/capabilities.c
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ virCapabilitiesFormatCaches(virBufferPtr buf,
         virBufferSetChildIndent(&controlBuf, buf);
         for (j = 0; j < bank->ncontrols; j++) {
             const char *min_unit;
-            virResctrlInfoPtr controls = bank->controls[j];
+            virResctrlInfoPerCachePtr controls = bank->controls[j];
             unsigned long long gran_short_size = controls->granularity;
             unsigned long long min_short_size = controls->min;
 
diff --git a/src/conf/capabilities.h b/src/conf/capabilities.h
index 5048fa819d..27b88cb5ed 100644
--- a/src/conf/capabilities.h
+++ b/src/conf/capabilities.h
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ struct _virCapsHostCacheBank {
     virCacheType type;  /* Data, Instruction or Unified */
     virBitmapPtr cpus;  /* All CPUs that share this bank */
     size_t ncontrols;
-    virResctrlInfoPtr *controls;
+    virResctrlInfoPerCachePtr *controls;
 };
 
 typedef struct _virCapsHost virCapsHost;
diff --git a/src/util/virresctrl.c b/src/util/virresctrl.c
index 2a11825a52..050a08178e 100644
--- a/src/util/virresctrl.c
+++ b/src/util/virresctrl.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int
 virResctrlGetCacheInfo(unsigned int level,
                        unsigned long long size,
                        virCacheType scope,
-                       virResctrlInfoPtr **controls,
+                       virResctrlInfoPerCachePtr **controls,
                        size_t *ncontrols)
 {
     int ret = -1;
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ virResctrlGetCacheInfo(unsigned int level,
     char *type_upper = NULL;
     unsigned int bits = 0;
     unsigned int min_cbm_bits = 0;
-    virResctrlInfoPtr control;
+    virResctrlInfoPerCachePtr control;
 
     if (VIR_ALLOC(control) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
diff --git a/src/util/virresctrl.h b/src/util/virresctrl.h
index 848b13e98a..42e8527803 100644
--- a/src/util/virresctrl.h
+++ b/src/util/virresctrl.h
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ typedef enum {
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virCache);
 
 
-typedef struct _virResctrlInfo virResctrlInfo;
-typedef virResctrlInfo *virResctrlInfoPtr;
-struct _virResctrlInfo {
+typedef struct _virResctrlInfoPerCache virResctrlInfoPerCache;
+typedef virResctrlInfoPerCache *virResctrlInfoPerCachePtr;
+struct _virResctrlInfoPerCache {
     /* Smallest possible increase of the allocation size in bytes */
     unsigned long long granularity;
     /* Minimal allocatable size in bytes (if different from granularity) */
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int
 virResctrlGetCacheInfo(unsigned int level,
                        unsigned long long size,
                        virCacheType scope,
-                       virResctrlInfoPtr **controls,
+                       virResctrlInfoPerCachePtr **controls,
                        size_t *ncontrols);
 
 int