> We already DO report the information we care about -- the SMP
> weighting value -- and thus the code is correct. The value indicates
> how much data is localized to that CPU and therefore how expensive it
> is to reschedule a process elsewhere.
There are plenty of other reasons for wanting to know more, eg picking which
video encode tables to use - but I still agree they belong in user space
since cpuid is available from user space too
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