Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add CPU-type to topology

From: Ricardo Neri
Date: Thu Jun 27 2024 - 11:17:24 EST


On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 02:49:10PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Le 17/06/2024 à 11:11, Pawan Gupta a écrit :

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> Hello
>
> Is there still a plan to expose this info in sysfs? Userspace currently uses
> frequencies to guess which cores are E or P. Intel sent some patches several
> years ago [1], but they got abandoned nowhere as far as I know.

At the time of writing those patches an alternative interface emerged from
perf sysfs. You can read the CPUs of a given type from
/sys/devices/cpu_{core,atom}/cpus .

Yes, this is perf sysfs, but is not obvious from the name and has a list of
CPUs. It meet the need, IMO.