Re: userspace irq balancer 

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 03:17:23 EST


On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 04:39:29PM -0700, Keith Mannthey wrote:
> This makes building meaningful apicid masks (more than one cpu) a bit
> tricky. For example a user would have to know that cpus 1,2,9,10 were
> on the same cluster not (1,2,3,4) as you would expect. Since the bios
> can do what it will it makes it hard to build masks of capable clusters
> easily in all situations.

with sysfs the kernel can export some topology info; iirc that was desired
anyway for other HPC applications anyway ?

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