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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 13:33:06 -0700
From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
To: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/18] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:12:07PM -0500, Nilay Vaish wrote:
> On 7 October 2016 at 21:45, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> wrote:
> > From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
> >
> > +L3 details (code and data prioritization disabled)
> > +--------------------------------------------------
> > +With CDP disabled the L3 schemata format is:
> > +
> > +       L3:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
> > +
> > +L3 details (CDP enabled via mount option to resctrl)
> > +----------------------------------------------------
> > +When CDP is enabled, you need to specify separate cache bit masks for
> > +code and data access. The generic format is:
> > +
> > +       L3:<cache_id0>=<d_cbm>,<i_cbm>;<cache_id1>=<d_cbm>,<i_cbm>;...
> 
> Can we drop L3 here and instead say:
> L<level>:<cache_id0>=<d_cbm>,<i_cbm>;<cache_id1>=<d_cbm>,<i_cbm>;...
> 
> and similarly for without CDP as well.

L3 and L2 are similar but different. L2 doesn't have CDP feature. It would
be better to talk them separately here.

Thanks.

-Fenghua