From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 04:00:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D74316A444; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:00:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D40C43D45; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:00:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9I40L82022939; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j9I40LiZ022938; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:00:21 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jung-uk Kim Message-ID: <20051018040021.GI53525@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200510160858.j9G8wR9v045670@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051017213635.GC59364@cell.sick.ru> <20051017220004.GI15097@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <200510171850.39961.jkim@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510171850.39961.jkim@FreeBSD.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brooks Davis , cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Eric Anholt , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:00:44 -0000 On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:50:38PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2005 06:00 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I'm not sure that I care what dmesg says, but I do want an accurate > > view of our topology presented by the system, not some arbitrary > > and frankly meaningless CPU count. If nothing else I care because > > the two cores share one memory controller. That may not be all > > that noticable now for normal application, but I expect it will be > > once we start seeing 4+ core CPUs. Telling the user the (somewhat > > complicated) truth about their hardware is part of "doing it > > right". > > I believe we have to implement ACPI SRAT (Static Resource Affinity > Table) and SLIT (System Locality Information Table) to achieve this. No kidding - I've said this many times and that this is an area I'm working in. I've mentioned this to you before. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)