linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCHv2] x86/pci: Initial commit for new VMD device driver

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1510051734310.23840@localhost.lm.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:03:09 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
cc:	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Bryan Veal <bryan.e.veal@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv2] x86/pci: Initial commit for new VMD device
 driver

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com> wrote:
>> The immediate benefit is that devices on VMD domains do not use resources
>> on the default PCI domain, so we have more than the 256 buses available.
>
> Would be nice to incorporate that information in the help text and in the
> changelog.

Fair enough. Perhaps we thought the "secondary domain" description
implied that information, but maybe we've been doing this too long. :)

Thanks for the feedback.
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