Re: [PATCH 0/14] v2 multi-die/package topology support

From: Brice Goglin
Date: Fri Apr 12 2019 - 16:40:54 EST


Le 12/04/2019 Ã 21:52, Len Brown a ÃcritÂ:
>>>> I think I prefer 's/threads/cpus/g' on that. Threads makes me think SMT,
>>>> and I don't think there's any guarantee the part in question will have
>>>> SMT on.
>>> I think 'threads' is a bit confusing as well. We seem to be using 'cpu'
>>> everywhere for something we can schedule tasks on, including the sysfs
>>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/ subdirs for each SMT thread on SMT systems.
> I agree with Peter and Morten.
> "cpu" is more clear and consistent than "thread" here.
> I'll spin the series with that string changed.


Agreed, I should have used that suffix from the beginning.

Brice