From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xavier Bru Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:13:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix topology init take 2 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jesse Barnes writes: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:17:29PM +0200, Xavier Bru wrote: > >=20 > > Jesse Barnes writes: > > > Populate topology directories correctly now that NUMA kernels work. > > >=20 > > > Jesse > > >=20 > >=20 > > Jesse, > >=20 > > Thanks for the patch. Just one question about it: > >=20 > > Are there relevant informations that can be used apart from: > > node*/meminfo > > node*/cpumap > >=20 > > We find some node*/memblk* and cpu/cpu* that are empty directories. > >=20 > > Should they sometimes provide some informations like LID (for cpu*) or= =20 > > physical block addr & length (for memblk) ? I suppose this is part of > > the discussion on libnuma & hwgfs ? >=20 > Those seem like reasonable things to export in those directories, is > there anything else that would be nice to have? >=20 > Jesse . as evoqued earlier some physical location information like a position in the rack ( acpi ?). . information on node status (available/not) for future hot plug, unless the presence of the node directory provides the information. . what about infos already present in /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/pal ?=20 --=20 Sinc=E8res salutations. _____________________________________________________________________ =20 Xavier BRU BULL ISD/R&D/INTEL office: FREC B1-422 tel : +33 (0)4 76 29 77 45 http://www-frec.bull.fr fax : +33 (0)4 76 29 77 70 mailto:Xavier.Bru@bull.net addr: BULL, 1 rue de Provence, BP 208, 38432 Echirolles Cedex, FRANCE _____________________________________________________________________