On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 12:02:05PM +0300, Mikhail Feoktistov wrote:
On 11.07.2017 15:55, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:20:38PM +0300, Mikhail Feoktistov wrote:
>>
>> On 11.07.2017 12:22, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 04:59:05AM -0400, Mikhail Feoktistov wrote:
>>>> Show warning message instead of fail operation.
>>>> It happens if kernel or cpu doesn't support reporting cpu cache
info.
>>>> In case of Virtuozzo file "id" doesn't exist.
>>>
>>> What is your kernel version?
>>>
>> 3.10.0-514.16.1.vz7.30.10
>>> Is there another way of getting the information about the cache ID?
>>> Maybe we need to parse the name of the cache directory 'index2'
>>> would be
>>> id 2 maybe? If there is no other way, then this fix is fine (as most
>>> drivers do the same thing), but I would rather fix it if that's
>>> possible. Unfortunately the cache information is structured stupidly
>>> compared to other kernel-provided topology-related information.
>> Only kernel 4.11 reports cache ID (maybe 4.10, but not checked)
>> 4.9 doesn't report ID
>
> Oh, so that is just older kernel. OK, then.
>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com>
>
>> ID doesn't match to indexN
>>
>
> Yeah, in vanilla it is number per level and easily deductible, but not
> really something we want to add into the code.
Martin, do you agree with this patch?
As I said, if there is no other way, then just not populating the info is
perfectly fine, we don't need to error out.
Have a nice day,
Martin