Re: [PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-03-19 Thread Vikas Shivappa
Hello Ingo/Peter, On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Luck, Tony wrote: The CAT thing was annoying already, but at least one can find that in the SDM, this RDT thing, not a single mention. The problems of development at the bleeding edge. Would you rather Linux sat on the sidelines

Re: [PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-02-26 Thread Vikas Shivappa
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Vikas Shivappa wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Luck, Tony wrote: The CAT thing was annoying already, but at least one can find that in the SDM, this RDT thing, not a single mention. The problems of development at the bleeding edge. Would you rath

Re: [PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-02-26 Thread Vikas Shivappa
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Luck, Tony wrote: The CAT thing was annoying already, but at least one can find that in the SDM, this RDT thing, not a single mention. The problems of development at the bleeding edge. Would you rather Linux sat on the sidelines until there are e

Re: [PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Luck, Tony wrote: > > The CAT thing was annoying already, but at least one > > can find that in the SDM, this RDT thing, not a single > > mention. > > The problems of development at the bleeding edge. Would > you rather Linux sat on the sidelines until there are > enough Google hits from

RE: [PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-02-25 Thread Luck, Tony
> The CAT thing was annoying already, but at least one can find that in > the SDM, this RDT thing, not a single mention. The problems of development at the bleeding edge. Would you rather Linux sat on the sidelines until there are enough Google hits from other users of new features? I did get one

Re: [PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-02-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:16:37PM -0800, Vikas Shivappa wrote: > This patch adds a new cgroup subsystem to support the new Cache Allocation > Technology (CAT) feature found in future Intel Xeon Intel processors. CAT is > part of Resource Director Technology(RDT) or Platform Shared resource contr

[PATCH V4 0/7] x86/intel_rdt: Intel Cache Allocation Technology

2015-02-24 Thread Vikas Shivappa
This patch adds a new cgroup subsystem to support the new Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) feature found in future Intel Xeon Intel processors. CAT is part of Resource Director Technology(RDT) or Platform Shared resource control which provides support to control Platform shared resources like c