Re: [PATCH] hyper-threading information in /proc/cpuinfo

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>]

>> processor : 0  processor : 2  processor : 4  processor  : 6 
>> package   : 0  package   : 0  package   : 0  package    : 0  
>> core      : 0  core      : 1  core      : 2  core       : 3  
>> 
>> processor : 1  processor : 3  processor : 5  processor  : 7 
>> package   : 1  package   : 1  package   : 1  package    : 1  
>> core      : 0  core      : 1  core      : 2  core       : 3  
>> 
> 
> Er, while you're at it, would it be worthy to add ad:
> 
> node:	x
> 
> for NUMA boxes ?

We also need to indicate other things here though, which is why
Matt Dobson implemented a more complete topology description
under driverfs. If you're really interested in that level of 
detail from userspace, you probably also want to know things 
like whether the evil twins share a TLB cache or L1/L2 cache.
I can't help feeling that's the more correct & complete solution
to the problem. His patches are in the latest -mm tree, and would
need some more work to be extended to hyperthreading, but that
seems like the better way (for 2.5 at least).

M.