Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel Mem b/w allocation user interface

[Shivappa Vikas]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> 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.

Ok. Right now we dont have this capability on any SKUs, so i will just do a call 
to say get_throttle_map() for non_linear scale and fail if there is a nonlinear 
scale and later we can update to API to actually return the map for SKUs that 
support it.

Thanks,
Vikas

> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx