linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/18] Intel Cache Allocation Technology

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Date:   Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:54:45 -0700
From:   Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "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 v5 00/18] Intel Cache Allocation Technology

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:39:47PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> > This version should cover all comments from Thomas.
> 
> Emphasis on should :)
> 
> But this series is a major step forward and I decided to merge the first
> lot:
>  
> > 0001-Documentation-ABI-Add-a-document-entry-for-cache-id.patch
> > 0002-cacheinfo-Introduce-cache-id.patch
> > 0003-x86-intel_cacheinfo-Enable-cache-id-in-x86.patch
> > 0004-x86-intel_rdt-Feature-discovery.patch
> 
> > 0006-x86-intel_rdt-Add-CONFIG-Makefile-and-basic-initiali.patch
> > 0007-x86-intel_rdt-Add-Haswell-feature-discovery.patch
> > 0008-x86-intel_rdt-Pick-up-L3-L2-RDT-parameters-from-CPUID.patch
> > 0009-x86-cqm-Move-PQR_ASSOC-management-code-into-generic-.patch
> 
> I fixed up #0004 (including Borislavs comments) and polished some of the
> changelogs a bit.
> 
> This reduces the size of the series and prevents that these parts get
> [un]intentionally fat fingered once again.
> 
> I intentionally left out the documentation patch as that one needs to be
> updated when you address the max closid issues.
> 
> Please work against tip x86/cache from now on.
> 
> The remaining issues are not that big, so I think we are really close.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>        tglx

This is really great!

I'm working on releasing updated remaining patches based on the tip x86/cache.

Thank you, Thomas!

-Fenghua