On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:05:31PM +1000, Mark Goodwin wrote: > > The SGI Altix PROM supports a SAL call for performance monitoring and for > exporting NUMA topology. We need this in community kernels for diagnostic > and performance tools to use, especially on very large machines. > > This patch registers a dynamic misc device "sn_hwperf" that supports an > ioctl interface for reading/writing memory mapped registers on Altix > nodes and routers via the new SAL call. It also creates a read-only > procfs file "/proc/sgi_sn/sn_topology" to export NUMA topology and Altix > hardware inventory. > > Any review/comments most welcome .. thanks What tools are using this? Might be worse to put an url to the source package into the Kconfig entry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Sep 10 03:46:53 2004
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