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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0hUPk6Geh3MG+948Q_LmHNEYBoJgBKLFb7jH7RCbPv5PQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Oct 2020 18:55:06 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
Cc:     Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@...ia.fr>,
        Sean V Kelley <sean.v.kelley@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 0/6] ACPI: Support Generic Initiator proximity domains

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 4:07 PM Jonathan Cameron
<Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> It would be very nice to finally merge this support during the next cycle,
> so please take a look.
>
> I think we need acks covering x86, ARM and ACPI.  Rafael took a look back
> in November at v5 and was looking for x86 and ARM acks.  Whilst there is
> no ARM specific code left we probably still need an Ack.  If anyone is
> missing from the cc list, please add them.
>
> Introduces a new type of NUMA node for cases where we want to represent
> the access characteristics of a non CPU initiator of memory requests,
> as these differ from all those for existing nodes containing CPUs and/or
> memory.
>
> These Generic Initiators are presented by the node access0 class in
> sysfs in the same way as a CPU. It seems likely that there will be
> usecases in which the best 'CPU' is desired and Generic Initiators
> should be ignored.  The final few patches in this series introduced
> access1 which is a new performance class in the sysfs node description
> which presents only CPU to memory relationships.  Test cases for this
> are described below.

The whole series has been applied as 5.10 material.

If anyone has concerns or objections, please let me know ASAP.

Thanks!

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