HyperThreading and CPU topologies.
Jeff Roberson
jroberson at chesapeake.net
Thu Jun 12 11:29:02 PDT 2003
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <20030612051553.J36168-100000 at mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson wr
> > ites:
> > >Index: smp.h
> > >===================================================================
> > >RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/smp.h,v
> > >retrieving revision 1.72
> > >diff -r1.72 smp.h
> > >19a20,46
> > >>
> > >> /*
> > >> * Topology of a NUMA or HTT system.
> > >> *
> > >> * The top level topology is an array of pointers to groups. Each group
> > >> * contains a bitmask of cpus in its group or subgroups. It may also
> > >> * contain a pointer to an array of child groups.
> > >> *
> > >> * The bitmasks at non leaf groups may be used by consumers who support
> > >> * a smaller depth than the hardware provides.
> > >> *
> > >> * The topology may be omitted by systems where all CPUs are equal.
> > >> */
> > >>
> > >> struct cpu_group {
> > >> int cg_mask; /* Mask of cpus in this group. */
> >
> > u_int ?
> >
> > uint32_t ?
>
> It's best to make it MD depedendent. I prefer 64-bit masks in ia64.
>
I thought I was being consistent with the rest of the file but it turns
out that it uses u_int so I'm changing to that. If someone wants to make
a pass through the smp code and make a cpu_bitmap_t or something they are
welcome.
Cheers,
Jeff
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