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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 00/10] x86/resctrl: Misc cleanup
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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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