Re: [PATCH 1/8] Documentation, x86: Documentation for Intel Mem b/w allocation user interface

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Shivappa Vikas wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> By sample table - does this mean we can map a throttle value in non-linear
> scale to its percentage ?

Exactly. And that map should be provided by Intel simply because it's a
royal pain in the neck if users have to map random power of 2 values to
something useful. And of course every user has to do the same thing on
their own. That'd be more than silly.

Thanks,

	tglx