Re: Exporting physical topology information

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 13:45:16 EST


On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:48:26PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:21:39PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:37:14PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > If we could physically locate a PCI bus, then it would be much easier
> > > to (for example) locate our defective SCSI disk that is target4 on the
> > > SCSI controller that is on pci bus 0000:20.
> >
> > Um, what's wrong with the current /sys/class/pci_bus/*/cpuaffinity files
> > for determining this topology information? That is why it was added.
>
> This gives us more logical topology information. It still doesn't tell
> us where in the room the specific piece of equipment is.

True, but isn't that what labels on your CPU nodes are for?

:)

greg k-h
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