From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Dan Behman <dbehman@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hyperthreading: easiest userland method?
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 11:10:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F61E1F9.6030409@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OFACE20891.664CABA8-ON85256D9F.004FBBDE@torolab.ibm.com
Dan Behman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a need to programmatically determine whether or not hyperthreading
> is enabled (and in use) for licensing reasons in my application.
> Currently, I know of two ways to do this:
> From scouring the archives and the net, it doesn't seem like there's any
> API that currently exists, but perhaps I've missed something.
> /proc/cpuinfo gathers its information from somewhere - is there a way in
> userland to bypass /proc/cpuinfo and directly get this data manually?
You could probably load a kernel module to check this stuff.
For 2.4, in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c, look for the code that checks for
X86_FEATURE_HT. You should be able to just copy that logic into a
kernel module and export the result via /proc.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-12 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-12 14:41 Hyperthreading: easiest userland method? Dan Behman
2003-09-12 14:55 ` dada1
2003-09-12 15:10 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-09-12 16:12 ` Dave Hansen
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2003-09-12 17:00 Nakajima, Jun
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