From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754167AbdCaIYX (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:24:23 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:39827 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751517AbdCaIYV (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:24:21 -0400 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:24:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: "Luck, Tony" cc: Vikas Shivappa , Fenghua Yu , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Implement "update" mode when writing schemata file In-Reply-To: <1490377918-30686-1-git-send-email-tony.luck@intel.com> Message-ID: References: <1490377918-30686-1-git-send-email-tony.luck@intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Luck, Tony wrote: > +Reading/writing the schemata file > +--------------------------------- > +Reading the schemata file will show the state of all resources > +on all domains. When writing you only need to specify those values > +which you wish to change. E.g. > + > +# cat schemata > +L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff > +L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff > +# echo "L3DATA:2=3c0;" > schemata > +# cat schemata > +L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=3c0;3=fffff > +L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff It would be nice if the output would cover the mask width, i.e: L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=003c0;3=fffff L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff because that makes it tabular and simpler to read. Thanks, tglx