Re: UVM wait states

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Wed, 24 Feb 2016 07:08:04 -0500
    From:        christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
    Message-ID:  <20160224120804.9563D17FDAD%rebar.astron.com@localhost>

  | It is 6/n

Maybe processes like ps & top, with limited display space could
display a processor name instead of number, from a set of one char
names like
	0..9A..Za..z#$
That would at least get to 64 processors in a 1 char output slot.
(It would mean defining the list somewhere global so everyone would
use the same set, or it would get kind of confusing.)

Most if us would just still see the /digit form, because most of us don't
have that many processors...

For those lucky few with > 64, we might assume that they're rick enough to
have colour displays, and enough cpu bandwidth to waste a little, and choose
different colour combinations (fg&bg) for the "/n" pair of chars.  That
should expand the name space to allow more than enough for now.

kre