Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754079AbdCJADC (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2017 19:03:02 -0500 Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.43]:56550 "EHLO mga05.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013AbdCJADB (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2017 19:03:01 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.36,137,1486454400"; d="scan'208";a="65984885" Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:03:57 -0800 (PST) From: Shivappa Vikas X-X-Sender: vikas@vshiva-Udesk To: Thomas Gleixner cc: Vikas Shivappa , vikas.shivappa@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com, andi.kleen@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/intel_rdt: Improvements to parsing schemata In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1487360328-6768-1-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> <1487360328-6768-3-git-send-email-vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 419 Lines: 17 > Anyway, first of all we want to know WHY this ordering is required. If it's > not required then why would we enforce it? Do the users want to see the data in the same order they entered ? If we want to do that then its easy to implement when we enforce the order .. (because right now resources are always displayed in a predefined order). Otherwise i can drop this patch. Thanks, Vikas > > Thanks, > > tglx >