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Subject: Re: [PLPA users] POWER /sys differences
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-15 10:20:02


Blah; I forgot to attach the tarball. Here it is.

On Aug 15, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> It looks like POWER Linux systems have differences in /sys as
> compared to AMD / Intel systems. Attached is a tarball from a SLES9/
> SP3 machine that had its kernel upgraded to a kernel.org 2.6.18.1.
> The machine has 4 sockets, each with 2 SMT threads and 1 core.
>
> PLPA is currently looking for the following files:
>
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online
> core_id
> physical_package_id
>
> But this POWER /sys filesystem doesn't have core_id or
> physical_package_id. Instead, it has "physical_id". I notice that
> there's also a "topology" directory under .../cpu/cpuX, but it's
> empty.
>
> Are there any POWER experts out there?
>
> More specifically, it looks like different chips have different
> things in /sys. Ugh. Is there a way that PLPA can at least
> determine whether it's on a sys that it understands?
>
> --
> Jeff Squyres
> Cisco Systems
>
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems