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

[Garrett Wollman]

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

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman at csail.mit.edu>
To: Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/165893: processor topology should be exported in more obvious
 format
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 18:10:22 -0500

 <<On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:32:06 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> said:
 
 > 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.
 
 At a minimum, having separate "processors", "cores", and "threads"
 sysctl variables would ease hardware identification, and there's no
 need to assume that they are uniform in order to make use of this.
 
 -GAWollman