Messages in this thread | | | Subject | CPU siblings | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:03:16 -0400 |
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Yo,
Myself and a colleague were just discussing the output of /proc/cpuinfo, specifically the CPU siblings field. He pointed out/we think that this historically was supposed to be number of HT siblings for a given CPU.
The actual value of that field comes from the Hamming Weight (number of set bits) of the per_cpu cpu_core_map variable, which supposedly is "representing HT and core siblings of each logical CPU", i.e. both HT siblings and additional cores within the same CPU package.
Does this mean that "siblings" needs renaming? (doesn't it come originally from "HT siblings"? or is it supposed to be both?). More importantly, what's the correct way to determine number of HTs?
Jon.
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