From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 17 22:00:06 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E11D16A41F; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:00:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3574D43D45; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:00:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j9HM048g025685; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:00:04 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j9HM04kW025684; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:00:04 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:00:04 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Gleb Smirnoff Message-ID: <20051017220004.GI15097@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200510160858.j9G8wR9v045670@repoman.freebsd.org> <200510171200.49522.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20051017172828.GB97278@dragon.NUXI.org> <200510171417.38095.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <20051017183139.GA97488@dragon.NUXI.org> <1129576130.1152.30.camel@leguin> <20051017192018.GD97488@dragon.NUXI.org> <20051017213635.GC59364@cell.sick.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051017213635.GC59364@cell.sick.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Eric Anholt , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, David O'Brien , Jung-uk Kim Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:00:07 -0000 On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:36:35AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > David, > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:20:18PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > D> Other than my electric company no one (people or > D> FreeBSD SW) should care that I have dual-core CPU's. > > I don't agree. The dmesg output should describe the physical layout > of the hardware, too. When maintaining hundreds of systems in server > room, people usually forget what lives inside the computer cases. And > when one needs to tell what is the motherboard and how many sockets > and fans it has, he should be capable to do this without opening > the case. I'm not sure that I care what dmesg says, but I do want an accurate view of our topology presented by the system, not some arbitrary and frankly meaningless CPU count. If nothing else I care because the two cores share one memory controller. That may not be all that noticable now for normal application, but I expect it will be once we start seeing 4+ core CPUs. Telling the user the (somewhat complicated) truth about their hardware is part of "doing it right". -- Brooks