linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] ACPI/PPTT: Add topology parsing code

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Message-ID: <9009154.M66RGdQJXA@aspire.rjw.lan>
Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:12:11 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:     Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>
Cc:     linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        sudeep.holla@....com, hanjun.guo@...aro.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] ACPI/PPTT: Add topology parsing code

On Friday, December 1, 2017 11:23:27 PM CET Jeremy Linton wrote:
> The PPTT can be used to determine the groupings of CPU's at
> given levels in the system. Lets add a few routines to the PPTT
> parsing code to return a unique id for each unique level in the
> processor hierarchy. This can then be matched to build
> thread/core/cluster/die/package/etc mappings for each processing
> element in the system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>

Why can't this be folded into patch [2/9]?

Thanks,
Rafael