linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] sysfs cpu?/topology is empty in 2.6.25 (32-bit Intel system)

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Message-ID: <20080515175826.GA20418@dirshya.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2008 23:28:26 +0530
From:	Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] sysfs cpu?/topology is empty in 2.6.25 (32-bit Intel
	system)

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> [2008-05-06 14:04:36]:

> 
> * Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > System topology on intel based system needs to be exported for 
> > non-numa case as well.
> > 
> > All parts of asm-i386/topology.h has come under 
> > #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA after the merge to asm-x86/topology.h
> > 
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/topology/* is populated based on 
> > ENABLE_TOPO_DEFINES
> > 
> > The sysfs cpu topology is not being populated on my dual socket
> > dual core xeon 5160 processor based (x86 32 bit) system.
> > 
> > CONFIG_NUMA is not set in my case yet the topology is relevant
> > and useful.
> > 
> > irqbalance daemon application depends on topology to build the cpus 
> > and package list and it fails on Fedora9 beta since the sysfs topology 
> > was not being populated in the 2.6.25 kernel.
> > 
> > I am not sure if it was intentional to not define ENABLE_TOPO_DEFINES 
> > for non-numa systems.
> > 
> > This fix has been tested on the above mentioned dual core, dual socket
> > system.
> 
> applied, thanks Vaidyanathan.
> 
> This was certainly not intentional - i suspect nobody noticed that 
> irqbalanced was working without proper topology information?

Hi Ingo,

Thank you for pushing the patch to 2.6.25-rc2.  I have tested
2.6.26-rc2  for correct topology information and parsing by irqbalance
daemon in the following system configurations:

32-bit Two socket dual core xeon 5160 processor system
32-bit Two socket quad core xeon E5450 processor system

--Vaidy

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