On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:38 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:13:08AM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote:

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Hi,

First, thanks for taking a look at this.

On 12/11/2017 07:12 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

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On Friday, December 1, 2017 11:23:27 PM CET Jeremy Linton wrote:

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The PPTT can be used to determine the groupings of CPU's at
given levels in the system. Lets add a few routines to the PPTT
parsing code to return a unique id for each unique level in the
processor hierarchy. This can then be matched to build
thread/core/cluster/die/package/etc mappings for each processing
element in the system.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <redacted>

Why can't this be folded into patch [2/9]?

It can, and I will be happy squash it.

It was requested that the topology portion of the parser be split
out back in v3.

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-acpi/msg78487.html

I asked to split cache/topology since I am not familiar with cache
code and Sudeep - who looks after the cache code - won't be able
to review this series in time for v4.16.

OK, so why do we need it in 4.16?