Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 2015 16:28:04 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V15 00/11] x86: Intel Cache Allocation Technology Support |
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 15:57:41 +0100 (CET) > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Nov 2015, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 23:09:34 -0700 > > > Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > This series has some preparatory patches and Intel cache allocation > > > > support. > > > > > > Ping? What's the status of this series? > > > > We still need to agree on the user space interface which is the > > hardest part of it.... > > My understanding is that two interfaces have been proposed: the cgroups > one and an API based on syscalls or ioctls. > > Are those proposals mutual exclusive? What about having the cgroups one > merged IFF it's useful, and having the syscall API later if really > needed? > > I don't want to make the wrong decision, but the cgroups interface is > here. Holding it while we discuss a perfect interface that doesn't > even exist will just do a bad service for users.
Well, no. We do not just introduce a random user space ABI simply because we have to support it forever.
Thanks,
tglx
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