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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:59:29 +0100
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-core
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Hi,

Could cache-sharing multi-core chips be represented somehow in
/proc/cpuinfo too? Such information can be useful in userspace too
(without having to run cpuid & such). For instance:

physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
l3 id		: 0
l2 id		: 0
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2

etc.

Regards,
Samuel