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    [PATCH] Add support for NUMA discovery on AMD dual core to x86-64 · 2f0cfcb9
    Andi Kleen authored
    Following the CPUID extensions and APIC-ID setup presented by Richard
    Brunner at Kernel Summit.
    
    Without this the kernel's node discovery would assign the wrong nodes on
    dual core systems and cause performance degradation.
    
    Only handles power of two cored CPUs, others will be ignored.
    
    /proc/cpuinfo has a new field cpu cores: <number of CPU cores> and also
    show the other core as HT sibling (this is needed to make old CPU based
    license managers to count one CPU package as only one physical CPU)
    
    FIXME this currently misses the disable code for SMT idle.  That's because
    2.6.9rc1-bk6 removed the arch hooks need for that.  Needs to be readded
    later.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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