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From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
To: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/9] ACPI/PPTT: Add topology parsing code
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:13:08AM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, thanks for taking a look at this.
> 
> On 12/11/2017 07:12 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >On Friday, December 1, 2017 11:23:27 PM CET Jeremy Linton wrote:
> >>The PPTT can be used to determine the groupings of CPU's at
> >>given levels in the system. Lets add a few routines to the PPTT
> >>parsing code to return a unique id for each unique level in the
> >>processor hierarchy. This can then be matched to build
> >>thread/core/cluster/die/package/etc mappings for each processing
> >>element in the system.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
> >
> >Why can't this be folded into patch [2/9]?
> 
> It can, and I will be happy squash it.
> 
> It was requested that the topology portion of the parser be split
> out back in v3.
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg78487.html

I asked to split cache/topology since I am not familiar with cache
code and Sudeep - who looks after the cache code - won't be able
to review this series in time for v4.16.

Lorenzo