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Re: [PATCH] Use uname not sysctl to get the kernel revision
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 08:39 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Ulrich what would be interesting besides the possibility of having
> >> multiple cpus?
> >
> > What is needed for various things like memory handling etc is all
> > topology information. Somebody might remember the numa library proposal
> > I had in April 2004 which was cast aside because people were only
> > looking for a "quick fix". Well, the problem still isn't solved.
> >
> > IMO the vdso should export information about:
> >
> > - processors and their relationship (hyperthreads, cores)
> >
> > - the CPU caches and how they relate to the cores (e.g., dual core
> > with shared L2)
> >
> > - local main memory for each processor
> >
> > - relative costs of the memory access of the various memory regions
> > (for numa local memory to a node, intra-node costs)
> >
> > - ideally, relative costs main memory and CPU caches
> >
> >
> > All this information can be steadily updated by the kernel as new
> > CPUs/memory get added/removed. The vdso should have functions to access
> > this information. It's easy enough to make this access race free.
> >
why does this have to be in the vdso? It's not like the code can be a
regular userspace lib/daemon that gets all the hotplug events and that
processes the info from /proc and /sys once during boot. A bit like how
nscd works I suppose..