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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel Mem b/w allocation user interface
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Shivappa Vikas wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > This interface is really crap. The natural way to express it is:
> >
> > Requested Bandwidth = X %
>
> I wanted to do it this way which did seem more intuitive but the issue is with
> the non-linear scale which the hardware does not guarantee a particular
> percentage for a particular value. Or we don't know the curve for delay value
> vs. actual b/w throttled.
>
> ex: in non linear scale , the granularity is 2^n.
> Max : 512
>
> Say a value of 256 is not guaranteed to have 50% or even follow a curve where
> we can calculate the corresponding percentage.

The question is whether this non linear scale thing is just a first
implementation attempt and any sane hardware in the future will use the
percentage value (which is an approximation as well).

If that non-linear scale is not going to be prevalent, then we really can
live with the fallout of a particular CPU type.

If it's going to stay, then Intel should be able to provide simple tables
which give us the required information for a particular CPU model.

Thanks,

tglx

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