Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:53:05 -0700 | From | Fenghua Yu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/intel_rdt: Add cpus_list rdtgroup file |
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:47:52AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 05:09:48PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > > While playing with the resctrl interface I found it much > > > easier to deal with cpumask list rather than just regular > > > cpumask. > > > > Could you please explain specifically why and when it's easier > > to deal with cpumask list? In programming cases, cpumask > > and cpumask list are almost same. And people are working > > on higher level tools to control resctrl. The tools can > > hide detailed regular cpumask or cpumask list and user > > doesn't need to care lower level format of cpumask. So > > is it really useful to add cpus_list? > > Yes, because a lot of people including me do not care about these tools at > all. Making it easy to read and write from the command line is the first > thing to do.
Sure, you are right. Hopefully adding a bit more explanation in the commit message will be helpful.
Thanks.
-Fenghua
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