Re: [RFC PATCH V2 01/22] x86/intel_rdt: Documentation for Cache Pseudo-Locking

[Reinette Chatre]

Hi Thomas,

On 2/19/2018 2:19 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> It is required that the user space application self sets affinity to
>> cores associated with the cache. This is also highlighted in the example
>> application code (later in this patch) within the comments as well as
>> the example usage of sched_setaffinity(). The enforcement done in the
>> kernel code is done as a check that the user space application did so,
>> no the actual affinity management.
> 
> Right, but your documentation claims it's enforced. There is no enforcement
> aside of the initial sanity check.

I see the confusion. I will fix the documentation to clarify that it is
a sanity check.

Thank you

Reinette