From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:04:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465627FD.9040301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <653FFBB4508B9042B5D43DC9E18836F5EE12ED@scsmsx415.amr.corp.intel.com>
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> The way new Intel features are being exposed in CPUID is kind of
> changing.
Changing is a VERY BAD THING when it comes to something like CPUID.
> Now we have different CPUID leafs for different kind of features with
> each of them growing much slowly.
> I mean, there is
> monitor-mwait related features in CPUID 5
> powermanagement features in CPUID 6 EAX, ECX
> Perfmon features in CPUID 10
Again, this is bad.
> This does not fit well with the way we use the feature words in Linux.
No, it doesn't... nor for anyone else who wants a compact representation
of this kind of information.
If they grow slowly from the bottom, I guess we could simply allocate
space in the vector byte by byte instead. Either way, it means more
work whenever anything has to change.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-25 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-23 22:46 [PATCH] Display Intel Dynamic Acceleration feature in /proc/cpuinfo Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 20:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 21:01 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 21:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 21:13 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 21:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 21:28 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 21:37 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 21:56 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-24 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 23:13 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-05-24 23:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-25 0:00 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2007-05-25 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-05-30 0:52 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 21:10 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-24 22:08 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-05-24 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 22:41 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 22:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 23:06 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-24 23:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-24 22:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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