Trivial nit below. On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 16:00 -0800, Vikas Shivappa wrote: > This patch adds support for the new Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) > feature found in future Intel Xeon processors. It includes CPUID > enumeration routines for CAT and new values to track CAT resources to > the cpuinfo_x86 structure. > > Cache Allocation Technology(CAT) provides a way for the Software > (OS/VMM) to restrict cache allocation to a defined 'subset' of cache > which may be overlapping with other 'subsets'. This feature is used > when allocating a line in cache ie when pulling new data into the cache. > The programming of the h/w is done via programming MSRs. > > More information about CAT be found in the Intel (R) x86 Architecture > Software Developer Manual, section 17.15. > > Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <[email protected]>
[...] > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig > index 9afb971..475b7b7 100644 > --- a/init/Kconfig > +++ b/init/Kconfig > @@ -961,6 +961,17 @@ config CPUSETS > > Say N if unsure. > > +config CGROUP_CAT > + bool "Cache Allocation Technology cgroup subsystem" > + depends on X86_64 Odd indentation. Just make it a tab (as I suppose the indentation of "help" already is). > + help > + This option provides framework to allocate cache lines when > + applications fill cache. > + This can be used by users to configure how much cache that can be > + allocated to different PIDs. > + > + Say N if unsure. > + > config PROC_PID_CPUSET > bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file" > depends on CPUSETS Paul Bolle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
