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Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 12/13] selftests/resctrl: Dynamically select buffer
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From:   Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
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Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:52:57 -0700
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Hi Reinette,

On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 15:19 -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Hi Sai,
> 
> On 3/6/2020 7:40 PM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote:
> > Presently, while running CAT test case, if user hasn't given any input for
> > '-n' option, the test defaults to 5 bits to determine the buffer size that
> > is used during test. Instead of statically running always with 5 bits,
> > change it such that the buffer size is always half of the cache size.
> 
> This seems more appropriate as a preparation patch to not have to make
> so many changes on top of the earlier patches included in this series.

Ok.. makes sense.

Regards,
Sai