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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:26:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwekvKTgaDB4R7XW=SWwW4PULzf7BZBycq+iKqdKSj2fQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1612121050150.3429@nanos>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> This update provides the support for Intel Cache Allocation Technology, a
> cache partitioning mechanism.

Ugh, this is some funky stuff. And it's entirely x86-specific, with a
rather odd special filesystem interface.

It looks pretty self-contained (good), but it also looks majorly
strange. I will have to think about this. What are the main/expected
users?

                Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-13  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12  9:53 [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10 Thomas Gleixner
2016-12-13  4:26 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2016-12-13  8:04   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-13  9:01   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-12-17  1:44     ` Tony Luck
     [not found] <20161221210119.GA56305@linux.intel.com>
2016-12-21 21:31 ` Fenghua Yu

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