kern/165893: processor topology should be exported in more obvious format

[Andriy Gapon]

The following reply was made to PR kern/165893; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, wollman at csail.mit.edu
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/165893: processor topology should be exported in more obvious
 format
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:32:06 +0200

 OTOH, it would probably also make sense to not assume that a topology is always
 uniform.  There could be a different number of (online) cores per package, etc.
 
 BTW, you can try to use devel/hwloc (http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/) -
 it provides convenience and portability.
 
 But I agree that this is a valid PR as our kernel could do a better job at
 providing topological information to userland in more ready form.
 
 -- 
 Andriy Gapon