Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 08:42:30AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I think this overstates the importance of this difference over other
> > parts of the cpu description.  I think there's a lot of optimism that
> > this matters for performing work.  Why do we need to print this, if
> > we aren't taking this into account during processing because we have no
> > code to make use of this difference?
> 
> Adding support for this can be only done if we have topology information
> that has more information.

The provided diff does not place the information in a data structure so
that the kernel can make a decision.

It just prints it.  Things printed into dmesg cannot be taken into account.