Re: [RFC PATCH v6 1/4] topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die

[Andrew Jones]

On 20/04/2021 12:18, Barry Song wrote:
...
> Currently the ID provided is the offset of the Processor
> Hierarchy Nodes Structure within PPTT.  Whilst this is unique
> it is not terribly elegant so alternative suggestions welcome.
> 

The ACPI table offsets are consistent with how other topology IDs are
generated. I once tried to make them a little more human friendly with
[1], but it was nacked.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180629132934.GA16282@e107155-lin/t/

Thanks,
drew