Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:57:02 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Exporting physical topology information |
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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?
:)
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