From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:37:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix topology initialization Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:27:07AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 07:05:11PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:48:34AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > Now that NUMA kernels are working we can properly initialze the topology > > > information so that /sys/devices/system/node* & friends aren't empty. > > > > So with a proper topology API we can start to kill off the topology-related > > hwgfs mess? > > I think this will provide some of the info that hwgfs provides, but not > all. We still need a way to map PCI busses to nodes (or cpumasks, > whatever makes sense) We should have this in the topology API already in a generic fashion. Do you need it in userland aswell? > and a way to map nodes & busses to physical, rack mounted bricks. Well, that's a SN-specific thing. But it could be implemented similar to the current toplogy API. What do you actually need this for?