On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Li-Ta Lo wrote:
> 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.
Hah! I missed that; my bad.
>> [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.
Is the tarball attached to #9 still accurate? I was using that when
testing the new stuff and I was getting 2 sockets displayed from plpa-
info, and only showing 1 core on sockets 0 and 3.
--
Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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