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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181114224921.12123-5-keith.busch@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/14/18 2:49 PM, Keith Busch wrote: > System memory may have side caches to help improve access speed. While > the system provided cache is transparent to the software accessing > these memory ranges, applications can optimize their own access based > on cache attributes. > > In preparation for such systems, provide a new API for the kernel to > register these memory side caches under the memory node that provides it. > > The kernel's sysfs representation is modeled from the cpu cacheinfo > attributes, as seen from /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache/. Unlike CPU > cacheinfo, though, a higher node's memory cache level is nearer to the > CPU, while lower levels are closer to the backing memory. Also unlike > CPU cache, the system handles flushing any dirty cached memory to the > last level the memory on a power failure if the range is persistent. > > The exported attributes are the cache size, the line size, associativity, > and write back policy. Could you also include an example of the layout?