Re: [PATCH] x86: Consider multiple nodes in a single socket to be "sane"

Borislav Petkov
2014-09-18T07:32:37Z

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 02:55:26PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> This sounds misleading to me. If I would have to explain how I
> understand physical_package_id, I'd say it is the physical piece of
> silicon containing the core. Which is consistent with what Peter says
> that using it to identify NUMA nodes is wrong.
>
> Btw, I'm trying to get on an AMD MCM box to dump those fields but it is
> kinda hard currently. Will report back once I have something...

Ok, so Brice sent me some AMD MCM data from a 4-socket box.
physical_package_id there really denotes the physical package, i.e.
silicon, i.e. physical socket which contains a core.

So on a 4-socket, 16 cores on each machine, you have:

physical_package_id
cpu0-15 : 0
cpu16-31: 1
cpu32-47: 2
cpu48-63: 3

which all looks nicely regular and clean.

core_siblings mirrors exactly that too, so you don't see the internal
nodes from that either, i.e:

cpu0/topology/core_siblings_list:0-15
...
cpu16/topology/core_siblings_list:16-31
...
cpu32/topology/core_siblings_list:32-47
...
cpu50/topology/core_siblings_list:48-63

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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