Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:13:15 -0800
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Sylvain Jeaugey <sylvain.jeaugey@bull.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [DMESG] cpumask_t in action
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:24:56PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

There's also /sys which contains information about which cpus are on
which nodes.

Jesse
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