James Cleverdon writes:
> On Thursday 09 January 2003 12:02 pm, Jason Lunz wrote:
> > Is there a way for a userspace program running on linux 2.4.19 to tell
> > the difference between a single hyperthreaded xeon P4 with HT enabled
> > and a dual hyperthreaded xeon P4 with HT disabled? The /proc/cpuinfos
> > for the two cases are indistinguishable.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > -
>
> In the kernel that's no problem:
>
> A) If the BIOS writers followed Intel's guidelines, just look at the physical
> APIC IDs. HT siblings have odd IDs, the real ones have even.
>
> B) Check the siblings table built up at boot time and used by the scheduler.
>
> I don't know of any way to do this in userland. The whole point is that the
> sibling processors are supposed to look like real ones.
If the kernel has sched_setaffinity() or some other way of binding a process
to a given CPU (as numbered by the kernel, which may or may not be related
to any physical CPU numbers), then this will do it: execute CPUID on each
CPU and check the initial APIC ID field. If you find one that's non-zero,
then HT is enabled.
My performance monitoring counters driver uses this approach in kernel-space
using smp_call_function(). I don't use the siblings tables because they suck :-)
[I don't think they distinguish between logical CPUs #0 and #1, and they aren't
exported to modules. The CPUID check is simple and portable across kernel versions.]
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