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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Shivappa Vikas <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com,
	tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	h.peter.anvin@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel Mem b/w allocation user interface
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:01:26 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1701231959160.3836@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1701231056070.3301@vshiva-Udesk>

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Shivappa Vikas wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > If it's going to stay, then Intel should be able to provide simple tables
> > which give us the required information for a particular CPU model.
> 
> By sample table - does this mean we can map a throttle value in non-linear
> scale to its percentage ?

Exactly. And that map should be provided by Intel simply because it's a
royal pain in the neck if users have to map random power of 2 values to
something useful. And of course every user has to do the same thing on
their own. That'd be more than silly.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-23 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 19:33 [PATCH 0/8 V1] x86/intel_rdt: Memory b/w Allocation support Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 1/8] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel Mem b/w allocation user interface Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 13:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-18  0:51     ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-18  9:01       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-23 18:57         ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-23 19:01           ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2017-01-24 22:10             ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86/intel_rdt/mba: Generalize the naming to get ready for MBA Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 13:45   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86/intel_rdt/mba: Improvements to handle more RDT resources like MBA Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 13:54   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-18  0:53     ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-18  9:05       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86/intel_rdt/mba: Memory b/w allocation feature detect Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 13:59   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-16 14:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-16 16:16       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86/intel_rct/mba: Add MBA structures and initialize MBA Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 14:06   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-18  0:56     ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86/intel_rdt/mba: Add info directory files for MBA Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 14:14   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-18  1:02     ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-18  9:08       ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-23 19:45         ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86/intel_rdt/mba: Add schemata file support " Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 16:07   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-18  1:03     ` Shivappa Vikas
2017-01-10 19:33 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86/intel_rdt: rmdir,umount and hotcpu updates " Vikas Shivappa
2017-01-16 16:13   ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-01-23 20:18     ` Shivappa Vikas

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