On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:22:12AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Le 14/02/2019 à 18:10, Keith Busch a écrit :
> > +What:              
> > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memory_side_cache/indexY/associativity
> > +Date:              December 2018
> > +Contact:   Keith Busch <keith.bu...@intel.com>
> > +Description:
> > +           The caches associativity: 0 for direct mapped, non-zero if
> > +           indexed.
> 
> 
> Should we rename "associativity" into "indexing" or something else?
>
> When I see "associativity" that contains 0, I tend to interpret this as
> the associativity value itself, which would mean fully-associative here
> (as in CPU-side cache "ways_of_associativity" attribute), while actually
> 0 means direct-mapped (ie 1-associative) with yout semantics.
> 
> Brice

Yes, that's a good suggestion.

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