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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] v2 multi-die/package topology support
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:46:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJvTdKkCc0AOiFV5fJ2pwbpQ5iYzjGVotPExJHVOs5CsK8GOsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190430093338.GA3518@zn.tnic>

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 5:33 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> So that die thing has only small relevance to some software, as you say:
>
> "These topology changes primarily impact parts of the kernel and some
> applciations that care about package MSR scope."
>
> So if there's no real need to add it there, then it probably shouldn't
> be added. The topology is already too complex - so much so, that tools
> are even generating PDFs from it :)

Agreed.
Let's keep /proc/cpuinfo simple.
If a case emerges where it makes sense to add more detail there, it is
trivial do add later.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-30 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-26  6:19 [PATCH 0/14] v2 multi-die/package topology support Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:19 ` [PATCH 01/14] x86 topology: Fix doc typo Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 02/14] topolgy: Simplify cputopology.txt formatting and wording Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 03/14] x86 smpboot: Rename match_die() to match_pkg() Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 04/14] x86 topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package support Len Brown
2019-02-26 19:46     ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-28 15:43       ` Len Brown
2019-04-05 18:16         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 05/14] cpu topology: Export die_id Len Brown
2019-03-07 14:45     ` Morten Rasmussen
2019-03-26 18:18       ` Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 06/14] x86 topology: Define topology_logical_die_id() Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 07/14] powercap/intel_rapl: Simplify rapl_find_package() Len Brown
2019-02-26 19:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-26 18:27       ` Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 08/14] powercap/intel_rapl: Support multi-die/package Len Brown
2019-04-05 18:27     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-08  1:35       ` Zhang Rui
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 09/14] thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: " Len Brown
2019-04-05 18:29     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-05 18:39       ` Brown, Len
2019-04-05 18:50         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 10/14] powercap/intel_rapl: update rapl domain name and debug messages Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 11/14] hwmon/coretemp: Support multi-die/package Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 12/14] topology: Create package_threads sysfs attribute Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 13/14] topology: Create core_threads " Len Brown
2019-02-26  6:20   ` [PATCH 14/14] topology: Create die_threads " Len Brown
2019-02-26 18:51 ` [PATCH 0/14] v2 multi-die/package topology support Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-12 19:32   ` Len Brown
2019-02-26 18:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-03-07 14:59   ` Morten Rasmussen
2019-04-05 18:33     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-04-12 19:52       ` Len Brown
2019-04-12 20:40         ` Brice Goglin
2019-02-26 19:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-30  6:50   ` Len Brown
2019-04-30  9:33     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-30 18:46       ` Len Brown [this message]
2019-04-05 18:33 ` Thomas Gleixner

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