On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:
> From: Vikas Shivappa <[email protected]>
This changelog is still utter crap.
> CONFIG_INTEL_RDT is defined.
We know already from $subject that CONFIG_INTEL_RDT is introduced.
> The option provides support for resource
> allocation which is a sub-feature of Intel Resource Director Technology
> (RDT).
The config switch says:
> +config INTEL_RDT
> + bool "Intel Resource Director Technology support"
So what? Is this now resource allocation or resource director or does the
actual stuff introduce something completely different?
> + default n
> + depends on X86_64 && CPU_SUP_INTEL
Why is this 64bit only? The changelog and/or the help text should tell
that.
> + help
> + This option provides support for resource allocation which is a
> + sub-feature of Intel Resource Director Technology(RDT).
Sure and you repeat the changelog nonsense here again.
> + Current implementation supports L3 cache allocation.
> + Using this feature a user can specify the amount of L3 cache space
> + into which an application can fill.
Sigh
tglx
