Message ID | 20200930140547.840251-1-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | ACPI: Support Generic Initiator proximity domains | expand |
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 4:07 PM Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> wrote: > > It would be very nice to finally merge this support during the next cycle, > so please take a look. > > I think we need acks covering x86, ARM and ACPI. Rafael took a look back > in November at v5 and was looking for x86 and ARM acks. Whilst there is > no ARM specific code left we probably still need an Ack. If anyone is > missing from the cc list, please add them. > > Introduces a new type of NUMA node for cases where we want to represent > the access characteristics of a non CPU initiator of memory requests, > as these differ from all those for existing nodes containing CPUs and/or > memory. > > These Generic Initiators are presented by the node access0 class in > sysfs in the same way as a CPU. It seems likely that there will be > usecases in which the best 'CPU' is desired and Generic Initiators > should be ignored. The final few patches in this series introduced > access1 which is a new performance class in the sysfs node description > which presents only CPU to memory relationships. Test cases for this > are described below. The whole series has been applied as 5.10 material. If anyone has concerns or objections, please let me know ASAP. Thanks!