Re: Externalize SLIT table

[Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:04, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 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

Using libnuma sounds fine to me.  On a 512 CPU system, with 4 CPUs/node,
we'd have 128 nodes.  Re-exporting ALL the same data, those huge strings
of node-to-node distances, 512 *additional* times in the per-CPU sysfs
directories seems like a waste.

-Matt