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Subject: Re: [patch V3 27/40] x86/cpu: Provide a sane leaf 0xb/0x1f parser
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Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:12:05 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 14 2023 at 15:28, Rui Zhang wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-08-14 at 14:26 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> What's the problem you are trying to solve? Some real world issue or
>> some academic though experiment which might never become a real
>> problem?
>> 
> Maybe I was misleading previously, IMO, I totally agree with your
> points, and "using optional die/tile/module" is what I propose to
> address these concerns.

That's exactly what's implemented. If module, tile, die are not
advertised, then you end up with:

        N   threads
        N/2 cores
        1   module
        1   tile
        1   die

in a package because the bits occupied by module, tile and die are
exactly 0.

But from a conceptual and consistency point of view they exist, no?

Thanks,

        tglx