linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/intel_rdt: Improvements to parsing schemata

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Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:03:57 -0800 (PST)
From:   Shivappa Vikas <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:     Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        vikas.shivappa@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, ravi.v.shankar@...el.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, fenghua.yu@...el.com, andi.kleen@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/intel_rdt: Improvements to parsing schemata


> Anyway, first of all we want to know WHY this ordering is required. If it's
> not required then why would we enforce it?

Do the users want to see the data in the same order they entered ? If we want to 
do that then its easy to implement when we enforce the order .. (because right 
now resources are always displayed in a predefined order).
Otherwise i can drop this patch.

Thanks,
Vikas

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>