Re: [perfmon] Re: cpuinfo_x86 and apicid

[Siddha, Suresh B]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:37:45PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Suresh,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:25:43PM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > > 
> > Ah, yes I missed that. It works there two. I had something wrong
> > about how I accessed cpu_data. I am used to the elegant way we
> > do it on IA-64 but on x86_64 you have to index the cpu_data[]
> > array with smp_processor_id(). I was pointing to cpu_data[0]
> > on all processors.
> > 
> > For what I need, I can do cpuinfo_x86->apicid & 0x3 to identify
> > which thread is running. I can now remove some more code in perfmon2.
> > 
> I meant cpuinfo_x86->apicid & 0x1.

Instead of hard coding, can you get the size of the mask runtime from the
size of cpu_sibling_map[cpu]

And remember, physical/logical hotplug can change this sibling map.

thanks,
suresh
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