On 11 March 2014 11:31, Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 04:32:35PM +0800, Vincent Guittot wrote: >> > Never got the new name DIE for CPU? Might confuse people when they use >> > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpuX/domainY/name or >> > sched_domain_debug_one(). >> >> In fact, CPU is also confusing because it's used for different things. >> But if it makes things even more confusing, i can come back to CPU > > Yeah, not sure DIE is the right thing either; because there's multi-die > packages that get classified under CPU :-) > > Take for example the Core 2 Quad, which was 2 dual core dies glued > together in a single package. > > There's also the AMD bulldozer which glued two dies into a single > package; but for those its not a problem because each die is a separate > numa node, so there DIE would actually be the correct term and PACKAGE > would be wrong. > > So while CPU sucks, I'm not sure we can come up with anything that's > actually correct. That said; we could try for something less wrong than > CPU :-)
OK Dietmar, Have you got another naming that DIE that could suit better ? otherwise i will keep it Vincent > > I'm not sure there are a lot of people who see/know the names of these > domains to be bothered by a change in them; it might be limited to just > us for all I know. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
