linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] x86/mbm : Intel Memory Bandwidth monitoring support

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1602172010150.19512@nanos>
Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:11:15 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...el.com>
cc:	Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, ravi.v.shankar@...el.com,
	tony.luck@...el.com, fenghua.yu@...el.com,
	kanaka.d.juvva@...el.com, h.peter.anvin@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 0/5] x86/mbm : Intel Memory Bandwidth monitoring
 support

Vikas,

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
> Was wondering if you had any feedback on the MBM patches. These are almost a
> complete rewrite (the core part 3/5 from Tony Luck). The reused parts are
> mostly the declarations of datastructures. This has tried to address all your
> comments on V3 about the commenting, the core calculation, init, lot of
> unnecessary and confusing constants and code..

It's on my list. I tend to it, when I cleaned up the unholy mess in
perf_intel_* et al.

Thanks,

	tglx