From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, x86_64: dual core proc-cpuinfo and sibling-map fix
Date: 12 Apr 2005 17:49:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:49:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050412154940.GC47162@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050411224228.A5445@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:42:29PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> Appended patch fixes
>
> - broken sibling_map setup in x86_64
>
> - grouping all the core and HT related cpuinfo fields.
> We are reasonably sure that adding new cpuinfo fields after "siblings" field,
> will not cause any app failure. Thats because today's /proc/cpuinfo
> format is completely different on x86, x86_64 and we haven't heard of any
> x86 app breakage because of this issue. Grouping these fields will
> result in more or less common format on all architectures (ia64, x86 and
> x86_64) and will cause less confusion.
Ok from my side.
Andrew, please include that one in the batch going to Linus if there
is still enough time.
-Andi
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