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From: sudeep.holla@arm•com (Sudeep Holla)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/9] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:41:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AC695C.2090406@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140625222355.GK32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>

Hi,

On 25/06/14 23:23, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> +		coherency_line_size: the minimum amount of data that gets transferred
>
> So, what value to do envision this taking for a CPU where the cache
> line size is 32 bytes, but each cache line has two dirty bits which
> allow it to only evict either the upper or lower 16 bytes depending
> on which are dirty?
>

IIUC most of existing implementations of cacheinfo on various architectures
are representing the cache line size as coherency_line_size, in which case I
need fix the definition in this file.

BTW will there be any architectural way of finding such configuration ?

Regards,
Sudeep

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-26 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-25 17:30 [PATCH 0/9] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 17:30 ` [PATCH 2/9] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 22:23   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-26 18:41     ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2014-06-26 18:50       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-26 19:03         ` Sudeep Holla
2014-07-10  0:09   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-10 13:37     ` Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 17:30 ` [PATCH 7/9] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information Sudeep Holla
2014-06-27 10:36   ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-27 11:22     ` Sudeep Holla
2014-06-27 11:34       ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-25 17:30 ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: " Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 22:33   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-26 11:33     ` Sudeep Holla
2014-06-26  0:19   ` Stephen Boyd
2014-06-26 11:36     ` Sudeep Holla
2014-06-26 18:45       ` Stephen Boyd
2014-06-27  9:38         ` Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 17:30 ` [PATCH 9/9] ARM: kernel: add outer cache support for cacheinfo implementation Sudeep Holla
2014-06-25 22:37   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-26 13:02     ` Sudeep Holla
     [not found] ` <1406306692-7135-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com>
2014-07-25 16:44   ` [PATCH v2 7/9] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information Sudeep Holla
2014-07-25 16:44   ` [PATCH v2 8/9] ARM: " Sudeep Holla
2014-07-25 16:44   ` [PATCH v2 9/9] ARM: kernel: add outer cache support for cacheinfo implementation Sudeep Holla
2014-08-21 10:59   ` [PATCH v3 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-08-21 10:59     ` [PATCH v3 09/11] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information Sudeep Holla
2014-08-21 10:59     ` [PATCH v3 10/11] ARM: " Sudeep Holla
2014-08-21 10:59     ` [PATCH v3 11/11] ARM: kernel: add outer cache support for cacheinfo implementation Sudeep Holla

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