[lustre-devel] [PATCH v3 08/26] staging: lustre: libcfs: add cpu distance handling

[NeilBrown]

On Tue, Jun 26 2018, James Simmons wrote:

>> On Sun, Jun 24 2018, James Simmons wrote:
>> 
>> > From: Amir Shehata <amir.shehata at intel.com>
>> >
>> > Add functionality to calculate the distance between two CPTs.
>> > Expose those distance in debugfs so people deploying a setup
>> > can debug what is being created for CPTs.
>> 
>> This patch doesn't expose anything in debugfs - a later patch
>> does that.
>> So I've changed the comment to "Prepare to expose those ...."
>
> Doug Oucharek recommonds the following commit message body:
>
> Add cpu distance routines which will be used by the Multi-Rail feature 
> to determine what fabric interface is nearest to the core we are currently 
> running on. Configuration of these distances will be provided from user 
> space via configuration routines in Lustre.

Thanks - I like this more.  Updated.

NeilBrown
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