cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 identcpu.c src/sys/i386/i386 identcpu.c

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:36:35AM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>   David,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:20:18PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> D> Other than my electric company no one (people or
> D> FreeBSD SW) should care that I have dual-core CPU's.
> 
> I don't agree. The dmesg output should describe the physical layout
> of the hardware, too. When maintaining hundreds of systems in server
> room, people usually forget what lives inside the computer cases. And
> when one needs to tell what is the motherboard and how many sockets
> and fans it has, he should be capable to do this without opening
> the case.

I'm not sure that I care what dmesg says, but I do want an accurate view
of our topology presented by the system, not some arbitrary and frankly
meaningless CPU count.  If nothing else I care because the two cores
share one memory controller.  That may not be all that noticable now for
normal application, but I expect it will be once we start seeing 4+ core
CPUs.  Telling the user the (somewhat complicated) truth about their
hardware is part of "doing it right".

-- Brooks