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SubjectRe: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels

--- Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 06:16 -0800, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > Hi, (please CC on replies, thanks)
> >
> > for the ganglia project (http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/) we are
> > trying to find a heuristics to determine the number of physical CPU
> > "cores" as opposed to virtual processors added by enabling HT. The
> > method should work on 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.
>
> I have a counter question for you.. what are you trying to do with
> the
> "these two are SMT sibblings" information ?
>
> Because I suspect "HT" is the wrong level of detection for what you
> really want to achieve....
>
> If you want to decide "shares caches" then at least 2.6 kernels
> directly
> export that (and HT is just the wrong way to go about this).
> --
Hi Arjan,

one piece of information that Ganglia collects for a node is the
"number of CPUs", originally meaning "physical CPUs". With the
introduction of HT and multi-core things are a bit more complex now. We
have decided that HT sibblings do not qualify as "real" CPUs, while
multi-cores do.

Currently we are doing "sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)". But this
includes both physical and virtual (HT) cores. We are looking for a
method that only shows "real iron" and works on 2.6 and 2.4 kernels.
Whether this has any practial valus is a completely different question.

Cheers
Martin

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Martin Knoblauch
email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de
www: http://www.knobisoft.de
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