From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com (Lorenzo Pieralisi) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:38:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v5 6/9] ACPI/PPTT: Add topology parsing code In-Reply-To: References: <20171201222330.18863-1-jeremy.linton@arm.com> <20171201222330.18863-7-jeremy.linton@arm.com> <9009154.M66RGdQJXA@aspire.rjw.lan> Message-ID: <20171213173851.GA4060@red-moon> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:13:08AM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote: > Hi, > > First, thanks for taking a look at this. > > On 12/11/2017 07:12 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >On Friday, December 1, 2017 11:23:27 PM CET Jeremy Linton wrote: > >>The PPTT can be used to determine the groupings of CPU's at > >>given levels in the system. Lets add a few routines to the PPTT > >>parsing code to return a unique id for each unique level in the > >>processor hierarchy. This can then be matched to build > >>thread/core/cluster/die/package/etc mappings for each processing > >>element in the system. > >> > >>Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton > > > >Why can't this be folded into patch [2/9]? > > It can, and I will be happy squash it. > > It was requested that the topology portion of the parser be split > out back in v3. > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg78487.html I asked to split cache/topology since I am not familiar with cache code and Sudeep - who looks after the cache code - won't be able to review this series in time for v4.16. Lorenzo