Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Specifying cache topology on ARM

2024-09-02 Thread Zhao Liu
On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 11:25:19AM +0100, Alireza Sanaee wrote: > > Hi Zhao, > > Yes, please keep me CCed. > > One thing that I noticed, sometimes, since you were going down the > Intel path, some variables couldn't be NULL. But when I was gonna go > down to ARM path, I faced some scenarios whe

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Specifying cache topology on ARM

2024-09-02 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
On 23.08.2024 14:54, Alireza Sanaee via wrote: Failure cases: 1) there are cases where QEMU might not have any clusters selected in the -smp option, while user specifies caches to be shared at cluster level. In this situations, qemu returns error. 2) There are other scenario

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Specifying cache topology on ARM

2024-09-02 Thread Alireza Sanaee via
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:25:47 +0800 Zhao Liu wrote: > Hi Alireza, > > Great to see your Arm side implementation! > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 01:54:44PM +0100, Alireza Sanaee wrote: > > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:54:44 +0100 > > From: Alireza Sanaee > > Subject:

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Specifying cache topology on ARM

2024-08-31 Thread Zhao Liu
Hi Alireza, Great to see your Arm side implementation! On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 01:54:44PM +0100, Alireza Sanaee wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 13:54:44 +0100 > From: Alireza Sanaee > Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Specifying cache topology on ARM > X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34

[RFC PATCH 0/2] Specifying cache topology on ARM

2024-08-23 Thread Alireza Sanaee via
Specifying the cache layout in virtual machines is useful for applications and operating systems to fetch accurate information about the cache structure and make appropriate adjustments. Enforcing correct sharing information can lead to better optimizations. This patch enables the specification of