Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:37:21 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Programmatically cache line Message-ID: <CABh_MK=2uvPoNCg7qL14yVuxo_%2BHVSvccLTBAnRAHNzqor--0g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180101103655.GF1684@kib.kiev.ua> References: <CALM2mEmWYz5nyqvxMJwMWoFOXnDTvWFrEug7UUha6xe7Um6ODw@mail.gmail.com> <20171230082812.GL1684@kib.kiev.ua> <CAJ-VmomxGJsn8eOtWoqevdW-spUPgcSGKEc7eR4xuXLP-E1XRA@mail.gmail.com> <08038E36-9679-4286-9083-FCEDD637ADCC@FreeBSD.org> <20180101103655.GF1684@kib.kiev.ua>
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2018-01-01 11:36 GMT+01:00 Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>: >> >> On x86, the CPUID instruction leaf 0x1 returns the information in >> >> %ebx register. >> > >> > Hm, weird. Why don't we extend sysctl to include this info? > > For the same reason we do not provide a sysctl to add two integers. I strongly agree with Kostik on this one. Why add stuff to the kernel, if userspace is already capable of extracting this? Adding that stuff to sysctl has the downside that it will effectively introduce yet another FreeBSDism, whereas something generic already exists. -- Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl> Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
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