Re: [DMESG] cpumask_t in action

Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-07T22:09:36Z

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.

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