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From: Andrew Theurer <habanero@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Hyperthreading and physical/logical CPU identification
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:31:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204291849.NAA23906@popmail.austin.ibm.com> (raw)

Hello all,

I would like to know if there is any way to confirm that I have 
hyperthreading enabled, and my P4 CPUs are hyperthreaded.  Actually, from 
something like /proc/cpuinfo, I'd like to figure out if I am seeing 2/4 
physical/logical processors, as a result from hyperthreading, or 4/4 
physical/logical processors with no hyperthreading.  I know, "If it's double 
the number of physical processors, well you have hyperthreading enabled."  
The problem is, I have 4 physical processors, but kernel.org kernels so far 
do not recognize all of them.  2.4.18 will find 3, while 2.5.11 will find 
only 2 (BIOS hyperthreading support off, no acpismp=force).  However, on 
2.5.11, if I enable hyperthreading (thru BIOS and acpismp=force, I see 4 
processors.  

I would very much like to believe that in this configuration, I am only 
running on 2 physical, 4 logical processors, but I am getting a 31% 
improvement (netbench) when hyperthreading is enabled.  Thats why I want to 
confirm I am really only using 2 physical, 4 logical processors.  Is there 
any way I can do this? (dmesg? /proc/cpuinfo?)

Thanks

Andrew Theurer

             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-29 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-29 18:31 Andrew Theurer [this message]
2002-04-29 22:41 ` Hyperthreading and physical/logical CPU identification Martin J. Bligh
2002-04-30 17:00   ` Jack F. Vogel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-29 19:40 Grover, Andrew
2002-04-29 19:59 ` Andrew Theurer
2002-04-29 22:20   ` J.A. Magallon
2002-04-29 23:14 ` Jauder Ho
2002-04-29 20:41 Holzrichter, Bruce

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