From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751643AbdAWTBc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:01:32 -0500 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:40250 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751356AbdAWTBc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:01:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:01:26 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Shivappa Vikas cc: Vikas Shivappa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, h.peter.anvin@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel Mem b/w allocation user interface In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1484076788-25385-1-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> <1484076788-25385-2-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Shivappa Vikas wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > If it's going to stay, then Intel should be able to provide simple tables > > which give us the required information for a particular CPU model. > > By sample table - does this mean we can map a throttle value in non-linear > scale to its percentage ? Exactly. And that map should be provided by Intel simply because it's a royal pain in the neck if users have to map random power of 2 values to something useful. And of course every user has to do the same thing on their own. That'd be more than silly. Thanks, tglx