On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:40 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> Hmm. So I'm confused -- I thought you said in #9 that "There should
> be just 2 physical sockets on the mainboard". So PLPA is now
> reporting 2 sockets, numbered correctly.
>
I didn't say how plpa-info should report. I was giving you the output
of the plpa-info and it was wrong w.r.t what you are trying to fix. It
says there are 3 sockets which is still wrong.
> [ollie_at_exponential plpa-info]$ ./plpa-info --topo
> > Kernel affinity support: yes
> > Kernel topology support: yes
> > Number of processor sockets: 3
> I do have PLPA intentionally skipping reporting sockets that have no
> cores on them. Are you saying that plpa-info should report sockets
> with no cores? I chose not to do that because how would you know
> what they are? Linux only reports the sockets that are in use -- how
> would you know what sockets are not in use? For example, what if you
> populate a motherboard with 4 sockets in sockets 0 and 1 -- how would
> PLPA know that sockets 2 and 3 exist?
>
The output still talks about socket without cores. It is right with
socket 1 (not counting/reporting it) but it is wrong with socket 2.
> Socket 0: 1 core
> > Socket 2: 0 cores
> > Socket 3: 1 core
Ollie
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