In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > once your program (and many others) have such a check, then the next > step will be pressure on the kernel code to "fake" the old situation > when there is a processor where <vague criteria of the day> no longer > holds. It's basically a road to madness :-(
I agree that for HPC sizing a benchmark with various levels of parallelity are better. The question is, if the code in question only is for inventory reasons. In that case I would do something like x sockets, y cores and z cm threads. Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
