Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>> Might I suggest that if you like the "we know best just trust us" 
>> approach, there is another OS to use. Making information available to 
>> good applications will improve system performance, or at least allow 
>> better limitation of requests for resources
> 
> 
> What will you do with the information?  The kernel is doing all the 
> resource allocation and scheduling.
> 
>  From a higher-level, the application wants the best performance. 
> Doesn't it make more sense to have an API that lets you query things 
> like: how many cores do I have, how many separate memory interfaces do I 
> have, how many cores handle interrupts, etc.
> 
> Based on that information you tell the system: "I've got 4 processes, 
> please put them all on cores with separate memory connectivity since 
> they're all memory-intensive. Now please put these other two threads on 
> the same cpu since they share memory but serialize each other by design."

Unless you actually have such a feature, saying "let's not make what we 
have useful because we could have something better someday" seems to be 
a needless sacrifice of electrons.