linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Add hardware prefetch driver for A64FX and Intel processors

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Date:   Mon, 8 Nov 2021 02:36:44 +0000
From:   "tarumizu.kohei@...itsu.com" <tarumizu.kohei@...itsu.com>
To:     'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@...radead.org>
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Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v2 0/5] Add hardware prefetch driver for A64FX and
 Intel processors

Hi,

Thanks for your comment.

> Here you talk about applications..

> Here you talk about CPUs..
> 
> How does that work?

Does your question mean how users tune their applications? We intend
to use it as follows:
1.) User tunes the hardware prefetch parameters of a particular CPUs
    via sysfs interface.
2.) Execute the application bound to the specific CPUs set above.