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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:06:52 -0600
From:   "Moger, Babu" <babu.moger@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 13/13] Documentation/x86: Update resctrl.rst for new
 features


On 1/12/23 11:30, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Babu,
>
> On 1/11/2023 4:47 PM, Moger, Babu wrote:
>  
>> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/resctrl.rst b/Documentation/x86/resctrl.rst
>> index 2860856f4463..7df5889237f4 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/x86/resctrl.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/x86/resctrl.rst
>> @@ -24,10 +24,15 @@ CDP (Code and Data Prioritization)          "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2"
>>  CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring)                     "cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc"
>>  MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring)              "cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local"
>>  MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation)              "mba"
>> -SMBA (Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation)         "smba"
>> -BMEC (Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration) "bmec"
>> +SMBA (Slow Memory Bandwidth Allocation)         ""
>> +BMEC (Bandwidth Monitoring Event Configuration) ""
>>  ===============================================        ================================
>>
>> +Historically, new features were made visible by default in /proc/cpuinfo. This
>> +resulted in the feature flags becoming hard to parse by the humans. Adding a new
>> +flag to /proc/cpuinfo should be avoided if user space can obtain information
>> +about the feature from resctrl's info directory.
>> +
> Could you please replace "parse by the humans" with "parse by humans"?
Sure.
>
> The rest looks good to me.
>
> Could you please do a sanity check by building the documentation to ensure
> that the usage of the empty quotes looks as expected and is not parsed out by a
> tool when, for example, creating the html docs?

Yes. Will do.

Thanks

Babu

>
>>  To use the feature mount the file system::
>>
>>   # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2][,mba_MBps]] /sys/fs/resctrl
> Thank you very much
>
> Reinette

-- 
Thanks
Babu Moger

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