From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:24:56 +0000 Subject: Re: [DMESG] cpumask_t in action 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, Nov 07, 2003 at 09:13:11AM +0100, Sylvain Jeaugey wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > These lines show you the numa topology of your machine (in our case, we > have 2 CPUS per domain, and a memory area). > This is quite a big piece of information about hardware. Even if it is > quite long, I think it should be part of the ACPI information. Yes, but do we need to know it at boot time, or should it be available in some other way (eg /proc/acpi/srat or something). I would argue that is more useful than seeing it in dmesg. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk