linux-kernel - Re: Odd performance results

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 09:27:48 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd performance results

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > The ordering Paul has, namely 0,1 for core0,smt{0,1} is not something
> > I've ever seen on an Intel part. AMD otoh does enumerate their CMT stuff
> > like what Paul has.
> 
> That's more the natural 'direct' mapping from CPU internal topology to CPU id: 
> what's close to each other physically is close to each other in the CPU id space 
> as well.

But does it correctly reflect the hardware?  That seems to be the real
question...

-- 
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  Henrique Holschuh