From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Exporting physical topology information
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:57:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040319175702.GA10432@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319174826.GC19428@localhost>
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:48:26PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:37:14PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > If we could physically locate a PCI bus, then it would be much easier
> > > to (for example) locate our defective SCSI disk that is target4 on the
> > > SCSI controller that is on pci bus 0000:20.
> >
> > Um, what's wrong with the current /sys/class/pci_bus/*/cpuaffinity files
> > for determining this topology information? That is why it was added.
>
> This gives us more logical topology information. It still doesn't tell
> us where in the room the specific piece of equipment is.
True, but isn't that what labels on your CPU nodes are for?
:)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-17 21:37 Exporting physical topology information Martin Hicks
2004-03-18 17:44 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-18 23:21 ` Greg KH
2004-03-19 17:48 ` Martin Hicks
2004-03-19 17:57 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-19 17:51 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-03-19 17:59 ` Greg KH
2004-03-19 18:53 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-07 20:13 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-05-07 22:38 ` Greg KH
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