linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/7] doc/vm: New documentation for memory performance

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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:31:15 -0700
From:   Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] doc/vm: New documentation for memory performance

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 02:51:50PM +0100, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 03:49:16PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> > Platforms may provide system memory where some physical address ranges
> > perform differently than others. These heterogeneous memory attributes are
> > common to the node that provides the memory and exported by the kernel.
> > 
> > Add new documentation providing a brief overview of such systems and
> > the attributes the kernel makes available to aid applications wishing
> > to query this information.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/vm/numaperf.rst | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> As this document describes user-space interfaces it belongs to
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll move this and combine with the memory
cache doc in the v2.