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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611131125040.3501@nanos>
Date:   Sun, 13 Nov 2016 11:58:38 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>
cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/46] perf/x86/intel/cmt: add per-package locks

On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, David Carrillo-Cisneros wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > I still have not figured out why all of this is necessary and unfortunately
> > there is no real coherent epxlanation of the overall design. The cover
> > letter is not really helpful either.
> 
> Note taken. I'll work on that.

The first thing which would be helpful is a proper explanation of what you
want to achieve and why, w/o going into design and implementation details.

Thanks,

	tglx

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