Re: Externalize SLIT table

Andi Kleen
2004-11-04T17:04:35Z

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:31:42PM +0100, Erich Focht wrote:
> On Thursday 04 November 2004 15:13, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > I think it would also be useful to have a similar cpu-to-cpu distance
> > metric:
> > ????????% cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/distance
> > ????????10 20 40 60
> >
> > This gives the same information but is cpu-centric rather than
> > node centric.
>
> I don't see the use of that once you have some way to find the logical
> CPU to node number mapping. The "node distances" are meant to be

I think he wants it just to have a more convenient interface,
which is not necessarily a bad thing. But then one could put the
convenience into libnuma anyways.

-Andi