Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

2016-12-21 Thread Fenghua Yu
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> 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?

Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

2016-12-16 Thread Tony Luck
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Ugh, this is some funky stuff. And it's entirely x86-specific, with a >> rather odd special filesystem interface. > > Yes. The inter

Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

2016-12-13 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > This update provides the support for Intel Cache Allocation Technology, a > > cache partitioning mechanism. Sorry for being terse in the pull request. > Ugh, this is some funky stuff. An

Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

2016-12-13 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 08:26:50PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner 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-sp

Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

2016-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner 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 sel

[GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

2016-12-12 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull the latest x86-cache-for-linus git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-cache-for-linus This update provides the support for Intel Cache Allocation Technology, a cache partitioning mechanism. Thanks, tglx --> Bo