Re: [BUG] sysfs cpu?/topology is empty in 2.6.25 (32-bit Intelsystem)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 08:05:07 EST



* Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> System topology on intel based system needs to be exported for
> non-numa case as well.
>
> All parts of asm-i386/topology.h has come under
> #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA after the merge to asm-x86/topology.h
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/topology/* is populated based on
> ENABLE_TOPO_DEFINES
>
> The sysfs cpu topology is not being populated on my dual socket
> dual core xeon 5160 processor based (x86 32 bit) system.
>
> CONFIG_NUMA is not set in my case yet the topology is relevant
> and useful.
>
> irqbalance daemon application depends on topology to build the cpus
> and package list and it fails on Fedora9 beta since the sysfs topology
> was not being populated in the 2.6.25 kernel.
>
> I am not sure if it was intentional to not define ENABLE_TOPO_DEFINES
> for non-numa systems.
>
> This fix has been tested on the above mentioned dual core, dual socket
> system.

applied, thanks Vaidyanathan.

This was certainly not intentional - i suspect nobody noticed that
irqbalanced was working without proper topology information?

Ingo
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