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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610261930020.5013@nanos>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:31:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
cc: "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
"Anvin, H Peter" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/18] x86/intel_rdt: Build structures for each resource
based on cache topology
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Order is visible to users when we print entries in the schemata file, and
> validate input that they write (we require that they provide all masks in
> the same order as this list).
> If we hot remove a socket, it disappears from the list, and from the
> schemata file. When we put in a replacement it reappears. I didn't want
> the user to see:
> L3:0=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff;1=fffff
> after hot replace socket 1, hence the sort.
Fair enough. Spelling this out in a comment might prevent questions about
this in the future.
Thanks,
tglx
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