Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 2002.10.26 "Nakajima, Jun" wrote:
>RedHat 8.0 is using
>	"Physical processor ID\t:"
>	"Number of siblings\t:"
>This implies they need to change it anyway, because 2.4-ac is
>	"physical id\t:"
>	"siblings\t:"
>

Summary:
- we have processor packages
- each package can handle several (someone said 128+ ;) ) processor cores.
  We really do not mind if they are really independent (power4) or not
  (xeon, ht)
- each core is a logical unit for Linux
- can we have two packages with different number of cores ?

Proposal for /proc/cpuinfo (sample box: an hypothetical TurboPower4 with
4 cores, 2 units on an SMP box):

processor : 0  processor : 2  processor : 4  processor  : 6 
package   : 0  package   : 0  package   : 0  package    : 0  
core      : 0  core      : 1  core      : 2  core       : 3  

processor : 1  processor : 3  processor : 5  processor  : 7 
package   : 1  package   : 1  package   : 1  package    : 1  
core      : 0  core      : 1  core      : 2  core       : 3  

So you can look for siblings based on package number, you can know if
two precessors are in different packages (for sched...), etc.

NOTE: do not know if 'core' name can give problems, perhaps you could use
'unit' instead.

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