tools/power turbostat: Favor cpu# over core#

Turbostat collects statistics and outputs results in "topology order",
which means it prioritizes the core# over the cpu#.
The strategy is to minimize wakesups to a core -- which is
important when measuring an idle system.

But core order is problematic, because Linux core#'s are physical
(within each package), and thus subject to APIC-id scrambling
that may be done by the hardware or the BIOS.

As a result users may be are faced with rows in a confusing order:

sudo turbostat -q --show topology,Busy%,CPU%c6,UncMHz sleep 1
Core	CPU	Busy%	CPU%c6	UncMHz
-	-	1.25	72.18	3400
0	4	7.74	0.00
1	5	1.77	88.59
2	6	0.48	96.73
3	7	0.21	98.34
4	8	0.14	96.85
5	9	0.26	97.55
6	10	0.44	97.24
7	11	0.12	96.18
8	0	5.41	0.31	3400
8	1	0.19
12	2	0.41	0.22
12	3	0.08
32	12	0.04	99.21
33	13	0.25	94.92

Abandon the legacy "core# topology order" in favor of simply
ordering by cpu#, with a special case to handle HT siblings
that may not have adjacent cpu#'s.

sudo ./turbostat -q --show topology,Busy%,CPU%c6,UncMHz sleep 1
1.003001 sec
Core	CPU	Busy%	CPU%c6	UncMHz
-	-	1.38	80.55	1600
8	0	10.94	0.00	1600
8	1	0.53
12	2	2.90	0.45
12	3	0.11
0	4	1.96	91.20
1	5	0.97	96.40
2	6	0.24	94.72
3	7	0.31	98.01
4	8	0.20	98.20
5	9	0.62	96.00
6	10	0.06	98.15
7	11	0.12	99.31
32	12	0.04	99.07
33	13	0.27	95.09

The result is that cpu#'s now take precedence over core#'s.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

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