On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:10:35PM +0000, Ray, Mark C (Global Solutions Engineering (GSE)) wrote: > Hi Ming, > > In the customer case, the cpu_list file was not needed. It was just part of a SAP Hana script to collect all the block device data (similar to sosreport). So they were just dumping everything, and it picks up the mq-related files. > > I know with IRQs, we have bitmaps/mask, and can represent the list such as "0-27", without listing every CPU. I'm sure there's lots of options to address this, and getting rid of the cpu_list is one of them. Indeed, same with several attributes under /sys/devices/system/cpu/, actually we can use cpumap_print_to_pagebuf() to print the CPUs. Thanks, Ming