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Date:   Fri, 5 Apr 2019 20:33:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] v2 multi-die/package topology support
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2019, Morten Rasmussen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 07:53:58PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 01:19:58AM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> > > Added sysfs core_threads, core_threads_list
> > > 
> > > 	Added this attribute to show which threads siblings in a core.
> > > 	Exactly same as "thread_siblings", a name now deprecated.
> > > 	This attribute name and definition is immune to future
> > > 	topology changes.
> > > 
> > > 	Suggested by Brice.
> > 
> > I think I prefer 's/threads/cpus/g' on that. Threads makes me think SMT,
> > and I don't think there's any guarantee the part in question will have
> > SMT on.
> 
> I think 'threads' is a bit confusing as well. We seem to be using 'cpu'
> everywhere for something we can schedule tasks on, including the sysfs
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/ subdirs for each SMT thread on SMT systems.
> 
> Another thing that I find confusing is that with this series we a new
> die id/mask which is totally unrelated to the DIE level in the
> sched_domain hierarchy. We should rename DIE level to something that
> reflects what it really is. If we can agree on that ;-)
> 
> NODE level?

Any conclusions here?