linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V5 1/4] ACPI: Support Generic Initiator only domains

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Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:55:17 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tao Xu <tao3.xu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 1/4] ACPI: Support Generic Initiator only domains

[ add Tao Xu ]

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:45 AM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> Generic Initiators are a new ACPI concept that allows for the
> description of proximity domains that contain a device which
> performs memory access (such as a network card) but neither
> host CPU nor Memory.
>
> This patch has the parsing code and provides the infrastructure
> for an architecture to associate these new domains with their
> nearest memory processing node.

Thanks for this Jonathan. May I ask how this was tested? Tao has been
working on qemu support for HMAT [1]. I have not checked if it already
supports generic initiator entries, but it would be helpful to include
an example of how the kernel sees these configurations in practice.

[1]: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1096737/