[PATCH v5 1/6] powerpc/pseries: rename min_common_depth to primary_domain_index
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Mon Jul 26 12:28:02 AEST 2021
On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 10:47:49AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> On 7/22/21 8:06 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 11:59:15AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 08:41:12PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > > No functional change in this patch.
> > >
> > > The new name does not match how you describe "primary domain index" in
> > > the documentation from patch 6/6. There it comes from the values in
> > > associativity-reference-points, but here it simply comes from the
> > > lengths of all the associativity properties.
> >
> > No, sorry, I misread this code... misled by the old name, so it's a
> > good thing you're changing it.
> >
> > But.. I'm still not sure the new name is accurate, either...
> >
> > [snip]
> > > > if (form1_affinity) {
> > > > - depth = of_read_number(distance_ref_points, 1);
> > > > + index = of_read_number(distance_ref_points, 1);
> >
> > AFACIT distance_ref_points hasn't been altered from the
> > of_get_property() at this point, so isn't this setting depth / index
> > to the number of entries in ref-points, rather than the value of the
> > first entry (which is what primary domain index is supposed to be).
> >
>
> ibm,associativity-reference-points property format is as below.
>
> # lsprop ibm,associativity-reference-points
> ibm,associativity-reference-points
> 00000004 00000002
>
> it doesn't have the number of elements as the first item.
>
> For FORM1 1 element is the NUMA boundary index/primary_domain_index
> For FORM0 2 element is the NUMA boundary index/primary_domain_index.
Sorry, my bad. I foolishly expected consistency from PAPR.
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