From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752083AbbESUfi (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2015 16:35:38 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:44193 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751357AbbESUfd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2015 16:35:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 22:35:25 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Vikas Shivappa Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Vikas Shivappa , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, tj@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, Matt Fleming , "Auld, Will" , peter.zijlstra@intel.com, h.peter.anvin@intel.com, "Juvva, Kanaka D" , mtosatti@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] x86/intel_rdt: Adds support for Class of service management Message-ID: <20150519203525.GQ4641@pd.tnic> References: <1431370976-31115-1-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> <1431370976-31115-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> <20150518192057.GA23653@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:33:55AM -0700, Vikas Shivappa wrote: > Yes the max bitmask and max closid can be read from cpuid. the presence of > rdt and l3 cache alloc is indicated by rdt and cat_l3 in /proc/cpuinfo. So > even if this message gets overwritten , user can see the feature enabled in > kernel. > > Can be modified somthing similar to "Intel cache allocation enabled" as well. Yeah, that would have more value to the user than a cryptic message about closids and bitmask length. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --