From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: anshuman.khandual@arm.com, Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] ACPI HMAT memory sysfs representation
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:13:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jnnnXi9Fqaf-d7AdnKrTMDCWr-e9tAx+G6nphrEPYm=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9015e51a-3584-7bb2-cc5e-25b0ec8e5494@intel.com>
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 11:21 AM Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/22/18 10:42 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > Are we willing to go in the direction for inclusion of a new system
> > call, subset of it appears on sysfs etc ? My primary concern is not
> > how the attribute information appears on the sysfs but lack of it's
> > completeness.
>
> A new system call makes total sense to me. I have the same concern
> about the completeness of what's exposed in sysfs, I just don't see a
> _route_ to completeness with sysfs itself. Thus, the minimalist
> approach as a first step.
Outside of platform-firmware-id to Linux-numa-node-id what other
userspace API infrastructure does the kernel need to provide? It seems
userspace enumeration of memory attributes is fully enabled once the
firmware-to-Linux identification is established.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-23 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-14 22:49 [PATCH 0/7] ACPI HMAT memory sysfs representation Keith Busch
2018-11-16 6:27 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16 15:51 ` Keith Busch
2018-11-19 1:52 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-16 16:55 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-19 5:44 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-19 17:37 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-22 11:52 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-22 18:01 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-23 6:42 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-23 19:21 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-23 21:13 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2018-11-26 15:52 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-26 16:42 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-26 18:08 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-27 10:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-27 16:56 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-26 15:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-26 17:20 ` Dave Hansen
2018-11-27 9:32 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-22 18:08 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-23 7:10 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-11-23 17:15 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-27 14:05 ` Anshuman Khandual
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