Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86, sched: allow topolgies where NUMA nodes share an LLC

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:22:19AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> FWIW, I don't consider the current situation broken.  Nobody ever
> promised the kernel that a NUMA node would never happen inside a socket,
> or inside a cache boundary enumerated in CPUID.

Right, I don't think the name matters. A synthetic flag which you set in
.../cpu/intel.c for each SNC configuration and then check said flag in
topology setup code is cleaner than having to add all those vendor/model
checks ...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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