Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] x86/resctrl: Misc cleanup

[Reinette Chatre]

Hi James,

On 4/30/2020 10:03 AM, James Morse wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> These are the miscellaneous cleanup patches that floated to the top of
> the MPAM tree.
> 
> The only interesting thing are the patches to make the AMD/Intel
> differences something resctrl understands, instead of just 'happening'
> because of the different function pointers.
> This will become more important once MPAM support is added. parse_bw()
> and friends are what enforces resctrl's ABI resctrl. Allowing an
> architecture/platform to provide a subtly different function here would
> be bad for user-space.
> 
> MPAM would set arch_has_sparse_bitmaps, but not arch_needs_linear.
> 
> Since [v1], I've picked up all the review feedback and collected the
> tags.
> 
> Nothing in this series should change any behaviour.
> This series is based on v5.7-rc3.

Please note that there are currently some resctrl changes in branch
x86/cache of the tip repo that are queued for inclusion into v5.8 that
have a few conflicts with this series. When you resubmit it may be
helpful if this series is based on that instead.

Reinette