>On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:27:00AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
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>>Define "physical CPU number" ;-) If you want to deteact which
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>I mean the number of cpu chip you can count on the mother board.
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>>ones are paired up, I believe that if all but the last bit
>>of the apicid is the same, they're siblings. You might have to
>>dig the apicid out of the bootlog if the cpuinfo stuff doesn't
>>tell you.
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>And you are right. Those apicid, after mask out the siblings,
>are put in phys_cpu_id[] array in kernel.
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>I think about look at bootlog too, but that is not a reliable
>way because bootlog might already been flush out after some
>time.
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>Cheers
>
>Chris
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Here is what RedHat does in some of their SRPMS to check if you have
multiple CPUs on your build machine so they can do some parallel builds
to speed up the build process (kernel, glibc, etc):
egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat || :
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