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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/associativity.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/associativity.rst index 07e7dd3d6c87..4d01c7368561 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/associativity.rst +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/associativity.rst @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ============================ NUMA resource associativity -============================= +============================ Associativity represents the groupings of the various platform resources into domains of substantially similar mean performance relative to resources outside @@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ A value of 1 indicates the usage of Form 1 associativity. For Form 2 associativi bit 2 of byte 5 in the "ibm,architecture-vec-5" property is used. Form 0 ------ +------ Form 0 associativity supports only two NUMA distances (LOCAL and REMOTE). Form 1 ------ +------ With Form 1 a combination of ibm,associativity-reference-points, and ibm,associativity device tree properties are used to determine the NUMA distance between resource groups/domains. @@ -78,17 +78,18 @@ numa-lookup-index-table. For ex: ibm,numa-lookup-index-table = <3 0 8 40>; -ibm,numa-distace-table = <9>, /bits/ 8 < 10 20 80 - 20 10 160 - 80 160 10>; - | 0 8 40 ---|------------ - | -0 | 10 20 80 - | -8 | 20 10 160 - | -40| 80 160 10 +ibm,numa-distace-table = <9>, /bits/ 8 < 10 20 80 20 10 160 80 160 10>; + +:: + + | 0 8 40 + --|------------ + | + 0 | 10 20 80 + | + 8 | 20 10 160 + | + 40| 80 160 10 A possible "ibm,associativity" property for resources in node 0, 8 and 40 |