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From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: rob@landley.net, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, arnd@arndb.de, rostedt@goodmis.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_factor into sysfs for user testing/tuning
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 08:52:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAC62B9.9090304@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120510082731.GC30055@aftab.osrc.amd.com>

>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH

>> +static ssize_t __tlb_flushall_factor_store(const char *buf,
>> +					size_t count, int smt)
>> +{
>> +	short factor = 0;
>> +
>> +	if (sscanf(buf, "%hd", &factor) != 1)
>> +		return -EINVAL;
> 
> This means only single-digit factors, right?


No, you can try '32' '16' etc. not a 'single-digit'.

> 
> Why not use kstrtoul?


any advantage of this?

> 



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10  5:00 [PATCH v4 0/7] tlb flush optimization Alex Shi
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/tlb: unify TLB_FLUSH_ALL definition Alex Shi
2012-05-10 18:46   ` Rob Landley
2012-05-11 18:33     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-10 14:43   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11  0:33     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 15:58   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11  0:38     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range Alex Shi
2012-05-10  7:53   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10  8:50     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 21:42       ` Rob Landley
2012-05-10  8:42   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10  9:04     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-12  8:01       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-13 11:13         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15  1:06           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 10:33             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 11:16               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 11:56                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 12:00                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 13:58                     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page Alex Shi
2012-05-10  9:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 10:40     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11  0:44       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11  9:03         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 16:28   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-12  7:58     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/tlb: add tlb flush all factor for specific CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-10  9:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11  0:47     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10  9:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11  0:48     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10  9:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 10:42     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11  0:50       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11  0:49     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11  9:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11  9:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 12:51           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm Alex Shi
2012-05-10  8:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10  5:00 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_factor into sysfs for user testing/tuning Alex Shi
2012-05-10  8:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11  0:52     ` Alex Shi [this message]
2012-05-11  9:51       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 12:53         ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 15:13   ` Greg KH
2012-05-11  0:59     ` Alex Shi

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