Hi Andi, From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RFC] nodeinfo - CPU architecture information helper Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:29:22 +0200 > Cai Qian wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I propose a new tool nodeinfo to util-linux-ng, > > It's a good idea basically. > > I don't like the name to be honest. nodeinfo is not very > intuitive. Better would be "lscache", "ls..." > > NUMA cell is unusual terminology, NUMA node. > Actually that is already covered by numactl --hardware > > It seems very Intel specific, might be better to use generalized > terminology like SMT > > But: if you do a parseable format i think it would be better > to just stuff it into some /proc or /sys file in the kernel. > > Using strings for dual core etc is unfortunate, there > are triple cores etc. > > Virtualization has the problem that it might be still > disabled in the BIOS. Detecting that is tricky. Perhaps leave > it out. > Even if it may not reflect the setting of running system, it still provides fairly valuable information to users, so I'll perhaps keep it at the moment. CaiQian > On x86 it should report family/model etc. > > So definitely needs far more work. > > -Andi > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
