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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/7/21 5:29 PM, tarumizu.kohei@fujitsu.com wrote: >> How does this look in practice? > It works on a x86 machine is shown below: > > # find /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hwpf/ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hwpf/ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hwpf/l2 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hwpf/l2/enable > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hwpf/l1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/hwpf/l1/enable > >> Dumb question, but why don't we give these things names? If the Intel one is >> called "L2 Hardware Prefetcher Disable", couldn't the directory be "l2_prefetch"? > There is no specific reason for directory names. We named it "l*" > because it is related to a certain cache level. We would change it, > if there is another suitable name. Ahh, so you really do intend the l2 directory to be for *all* the L2 prefetchers? I guess that's OK, but will folks ever want to do "L2 Hardware Prefetcher Disable", but not "L2 Adjacent Cache Line Prefetcher Disable"?