Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] x86/resctrl: Misc cleanup | From | James Morse <> | Date | Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:31:52 +0100 |
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Hi Reinette,
On 08/07/2020 17:39, James Morse wrote: > These are the miscellaneous cleanup patches that floated to the top of > the MPAM tree.
Is there anything else I should do with this series? (Does patch 10 need an ACK from anyone else?)
Would a branch or pull request make anyone's life easier?
Thanks,
James
> The only interesting thing are the patches to make the AMD/Intel > differences something resctrl understands, instead of just 'happening' > because of the different function pointers. > This will become more important once MPAM support is added. parse_bw() > and friends are what enforces resctrl's ABI. Allowing an > architecture/platform to provide a subtly different function here would > be bad for user-space. > > MPAM would set arch_has_sparse_bitmaps and arch_has_empty_bitmap, but > not arch_needs_linear.
> Nothing in this series should change any behaviour.
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