From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:41:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AC695C.2090406@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140625222355.GK32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Hi,
On 25/06/14 23:23, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> +=09=09coherency_line_size: the minimum amount of data that gets transfe=
rred
>
> So, what value to do envision this taking for a CPU where the cache
> line size is 32 bytes, but each cache line has two dirty bits which
> allow it to only evict either the upper or lower 16 bytes depending
> on which are dirty?
>
IIUC most of existing implementations of cacheinfo on various architectures
are representing the cache line size as coherency_line_size, in which case =
I
need fix the definition in this file.
BTW will there be any architectural way of finding such configuration ?
Regards,
Sudeep
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-26 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-25 17:30 [PATCH 0/9] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 17:30 ` [PATCH 2/9] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 22:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-26 18:41 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2014-06-26 18:50 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-26 19:03 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-07-10 0:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-10 13:37 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 17:30 ` [PATCH 6/9] powerpc: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure Sudeep Holla
2014-07-25 16:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-07-25 16:44 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] powerpc: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure Sudeep Holla
2014-08-21 10:59 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-08-21 10:59 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] powerpc: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure Sudeep Holla
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