linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/28 V2] Cqm3 patch series(along with MBM support)

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Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:39:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Shivappa Vikas <vikas.shivappa@...el.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
cc:     Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        vikas.shivappa@...el.com, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        ravi.v.shankar@...el.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
        fenghua.yu@...el.com, eranian@...gle.com, davidcc@...gle.com,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, reinette.chatre@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28 V2] Cqm3 patch series(along with MBM support)


Hello Thomas,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
>
>> Sending the V2 series to address all the feedback that was received in
>> V1. Apart from that this series adds a patch from Reinette to fix a
>> global declaration in existing RDT and also fixes some issues where the
>> prq MSR was not updated when masks or tasks were moved in some cases and
>> some cleanups.
>
> I merged that pile (after fixing the compiler warnings - SIGH) with the
> proviso that
>
> - the cache line issue vs. the default and current pqr state gets resolved
>
> - the worst case latency problem with the smp function call gets addressed
>
> I decided to merge it now so it gets exposure in next, as I'm going to
> vanish for my usual summer camp activity for the next 10 days and I don't
> want to do that huge thing as a last minute merge post rc5.
>
> Upstream merging into 4.14 depends on the resolution of the open issues.

Thanks for all the feedback. Will send a patch on top of tip for open issues.

Vikas

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>
>
>