linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] x86/intel_rdt: Pick up L3/L2 RDT parameters from CPUID

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610171852580.4991@nanos>
Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:53:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@...il.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Sai Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
        Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/18] x86/intel_rdt: Pick up L3/L2 RDT parameters
 from CPUID

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 03:45:32PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * struct rdt_resource - attributes of an RDT resource
> > > + * @enabled:			Is this feature enabled on this machine
> > > + * @name:			Name to use in "schemata" file
> > > + * @max_closid:			Maximum number of CLOSIDs supported
> > > + * @num_closid:			Current number of CLOSIDs available
> > > + * @max_cbm:			Largest Cache Bit Mask allowed
> > > + * @min_cbm_bits:		Minimum number of bits to be set in a cache
> > 
> > That should be 'number of consecutive bits', right?
> 
> Change to "Minimum number of consecutive bits to be set in a cache", is
> that ok?

Yes.
 
Thanks,

	tglx