Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for cache id

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for cache id
Date	2016-07-09 10:20 +0200
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On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 09:34:57PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>   The cache-id identifies a hardware cache of the system within a given
>   cache-index category of caches. The (cache-index,cache-id) pair is

I'd say something like:

   "... within a given cache index in a set of cache indices. The
   "index" name is simply a nomenclature from CPUID's leaf 4 which
   enumerates all caches on the system by referring to each one as a
   cache index. ... "

Because this way we hint at from where the "index" thing comes and
people can go and read the SDM for more info.

And also we're explaining what it is because, IMHO, whatever formulation
or spelling we do with "cache index", there's simply not a good way of
explaining what it means without *actually* explaining it and where it
comes from.

:-)

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    Boris.

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[PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for cache id "Fenghua Yu" <fenghua.yu@intel.com> - 2016-07-06 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-08 10:50 +0200
    RE: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com> - 2016-07-08 19:10 +0200
      RE: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-07-08 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-08 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-07-08 20:50 +0200
            RE: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> - 2016-07-08 20:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-07-08 21:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-08 21:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-07-09 10:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation, ABI: Add a document entry for  cache id Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-08 20:10 +0200

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