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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 20:16, Jeff Garzik wrote:


> That said, on IRC my preference was to create smp_num_siblings[] and 
> store the info per-cpu.  But right now that's only for software 
> engineering masturbation :) since it would store the same value N times 
> on current CPUs.

I agree with Jeff here - mostly because subverting the format is no
good, either.

In the future, or perhaps on other architectures, smp_num_siblings could
be per-processor.  So now we can extend this in the future and not break
the /proc interface.

Its just a by-product of the P4 that smp_num_siblings is global on
arch-i386.

	Robert Love


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