From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rohit.seth@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reading deterministic cache parameters and exporting it in /sysfs
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:46:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050318194616.GH24385@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050318111847.A32361@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:18:47AM -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
>
> Here is the updated patch.
>
> I have seperated out the changes related to
> (1) using new method to determine cache size in existing /proc/cpuinfo and
> kernel boot messages (All but last hunk below)
> (2) code to look at sharedness of the caches and store these details for future
> uses inside kernel and also exporting the cache details in /sysfs (last
> hunk in the patch)
>
> Dave: Do you still feel having the cache details exported in /sysfs is a bad
> idea? If yes, we can go ahead with the basic part of this patch (1 - above)
> and look at (2) sometime later, as and when required.
tbh I think its just bloat, but if no-one else has any objections I won't oppose it.
The rest of the patch I have no problem with.
Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-18 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-15 23:24 [PATCH] Reading deterministic cache parameters and exporting it in /sysfs Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-03-15 23:36 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-16 0:10 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-03-16 10:29 ` Daniel Egger
2005-03-16 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-18 19:18 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-03-18 19:46 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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