> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Habkost [mailto:ehabk...@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 9:04 AM
> To: Moger, Babu <babu.mo...@amd.com>
> Cc: Duran, Leo <leo.du...@amd.com>; m...@redhat.com;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/5] i386: Populate AMD Processor Cache
> Information for cpuid 0x8000001D
> 
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:32:52PM +0000, Moger, Babu wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Duran, Leo
> > > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 8:32 PM
> > > To: Moger, Babu <babu.mo...@amd.com>; m...@redhat.com;
> > > marcel.apfelb...@gmail.com; pbonz...@redhat.com; r...@twiddle.net;
> > > ehabk...@redhat.com; mtosa...@redhat.com
> > > Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; k...@vger.kernel.org;
> k...@tripleback.net;
> > > ge...@hostfission.com
> > > Subject: RE: [PATCH v10 2/5] i386: Populate AMD Processor Cache
> > > Information for cpuid 0x8000001D
> > >
> > > Babu,
> > >
> > > If num_sharing_l3_cache() uses MAX_NODES_EPYC, then that function
> It’s
> > > EPYC specific.
> > >
> > > An alternative would be to use a data member (e.g.,
> > > max_nodes_per_socket)) that get initialized (via another helper
> function) to
> > > MAX_NODES_EPYC.
> >
> > Thanks Leo.  Let me see how we can handle this. This requires changes in
> generic
> > Data structure which I tried to avoid here.  I will wait for all the 
> > comments
> for whole
> > series before making this change.  Note that right now, this feature is only
> enabled
> > for EPYC. Yes. I know this could this in future.
> 
> We just need a reasonable default, by now, and it can even be the
> same value used on EPYC.  This default just need to generate
> reasonable results for other cases that don't match real hardware
> (like cores=32 or cores=12).

Ok. Will change the name to bit generic for now and keep the defaults as in 
EPYC.
> 
> --
> Eduardo

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