Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf: Allow ability to map cpus to nodes easily

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:48:51PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Don,

SNIP

> 
> More generally, this sysfs access needs to check actual mountpoint using
> sysfs__mountpoint() IMHO.
> 
> Also this API can be generalized like reading int value from a sysfs
> file as the filename itself represents the content in most cases.
> 
> So how about changing this way?  It might reside on somewhere in tools/lib/api/fs/.
> 
>   max_cpu_num = sysfs__read_int("devices/system/cpu/possible");
> 
>   max_node_num = sysfs__read_int("devices/system/node/possible");
> 
> 
> Hmm.. looking at the code, perf already has filename__read_{int,str} API
> in util/util.c.  Maybe you can just use it instead.

I think those just read the file, while Don needs to parse
the map to get max cpu number

jirka