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Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10
Date 2016-12-13 05:30 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
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> This update provides the support for Intel Cache Allocation Technology, a
> cache partitioning mechanism.

Ugh, this is some funky stuff. And it's entirely x86-specific, with a
rather odd special filesystem interface.

It looks pretty self-contained (good), but it also looks majorly
strange. I will have to think about this. What are the main/expected
users?

                Linus

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Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-12-13 05:30 +0100
  Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-12-13 09:10 +0100
  Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-12-13 10:10 +0100
    Re: [GIT pull] x86/cache: Updates for 4.10 Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> - 2016-12-17 02:50 +0100

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