Re: cpuinfo_x86 and apicid

Stephane Eranian
2006-07-06T20:08:50Z

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:19:30AM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:01:18AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > In the context of the perfmon2 subsystem for processor with HyperThreading,
> > we need to know on which thread we are currently running. This comes from
> > the fact that the performance counters are shared between the two threads.
> >
> > We use the thread id (smt_id) because we split the counters in half
> > between the two threads such that two threads on the same core can run
> > with monitoring on. We are currently computing the smt_id from the
> > apicid as returned by a CPUID instruction. This is not very efficient.
> >
> > I looked through the i386 code and could not find a function nor
> > structure that would return this smt_id. In the cpuinfo_x86 structure
> > there is an apicid field that looks good, yet it does not seem to be
> > initialized nor used.
> >
> > Is cpuinfo_x86->apicid field obsolete?
> > If so, what is replacing it?
>
> In i386, it is getting initialized in generic_identify() in common.c and
> it is getting used for example in intel_cacheinfo.c
>
Well, yes this is exactly what I want, except that it is not compiled for x86_64
so on a HT Xeon in 64-bit I don't get it. Why is that?

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-Stephane