Re: How to get number of physical CPU in linux from user space?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:54:53AM -0700, Nakajima, Jun wrote:
> Recent distributions or the AC tree has additional fields in /proc/cpu,
> which tell
> - physical package id
> - number of threads 
> for each CPU.

That is exactly what I am looking for.

> 
> Using this info, you should be able to detect it. The problem is that they
> are not using the same keywords. I'm asking them to make those fields
> consistent.

Cool. Any idea when will those feature come to stander linux kernel?

Thanks.

Chris