Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/CPU/AMD: Present package as die instead of socket

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 12:46:33 EST


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 04:42:32PM +0000, Duran, Leo wrote:

First of all, please do not top-post.

> Are you saying that "amd.c' should be scheduler-aware?.. Really?

Please read again what I said.

> If so, are you saying that information returned by kernel-defined
> terms like 'Package', 'Core',

"information returned by kernel-defined terms"... hmmm, I don't know
what that means.

> etc, should done in the context of understanding the scheduler, rather
> than in the context what is being documented for those terms to
> actually mean or represent.

-ENOPARSE.

> I'd hope that "amd.c" should be doing the latter... and that perhaps
> we're simply not returning information as specified by the intended
> definition of those terms (in which case we need to fix our code)

-ENOPARSE.

I can't really understand what you're trying to tell me here.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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