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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_id
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 12:36:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160907103641.GO10138@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160907092219.5523-1-bp@alien8.de>

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 11:22:19AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> 
> It means different things on Intel and AMD so write it down so that
> there's no confusion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/x86/topology.txt | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/topology.txt b/Documentation/x86/topology.txt
> index 06afac252f5b..7a5485730476 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/topology.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/topology.txt
> @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ The topology of a system is described in the units of:
>      The maximum possible number of packages in the system. Helpful for per
>      package facilities to preallocate per package information.
>  
> +  - cpu_llc_id:
> +
> +    A per-CPU variable containing:
> +    - On Intel, the first APIC ID of the list of CPUs sharing the Last Level
> +    Cache
> +    - On AMD, the Node ID containing the Last Level Cache.

And there are no AMD parts where there are multiple LLCs on a Node? Like
where there isn't an L3 and the L2 is only per cluster?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-07 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-07  9:22 [PATCH] x86/topology: Document cpu_llc_id Borislav Petkov
2016-09-07 10:36 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-11-14  6:29   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-11-17  9:45     ` [PATCH -v1.1] " Borislav Petkov
2016-11-17 12:57       ` Yazen Ghannam
2016-11-17 14:16         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-12-19 11:34       ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2016-12-20  9:34       ` tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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