Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 23:50:11 GMT From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/165893: processor topology should be exported in more obvious format Message-ID: <201203092350.q29NoBhK066160@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/165893; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/165893: processor topology should be exported in more obvious format Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 18:10:22 -0500 <<On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:32:06 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> said: > OTOH, it would probably also make sense to not assume that a topology is always > uniform. There could be a different number of (online) cores per package, etc. At a minimum, having separate "processors", "cores", and "threads" sysctl variables would ease hardware identification, and there's no need to assume that they are uniform in order to make use of this. -GAWollman
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