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Message-ID: <681548.1013.qm@web32601.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:52:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@...bisoft.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to detect multi-core and/or HT-enabled CPUs in 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels
>In article <1167235772.3281.3977.camel@...xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you
wrote:
>> once your program (and many others) have such a check, then the next
>> step will be pressure on the kernel code to "fake" the old situation
>> when there is a processor where <vague criteria of the day> no
longer
>> holds. It's basically a road to madness :-(
>
> I agree that for HPC sizing a benchmark with various levels of
> parallelity are better. The question is, if the code in question
> only is for inventory reasons. In that case I would do something
> like x sockets, y cores and z cm threads.
>
> Bernd
For sizing purposes, doing benchmarks is the only way. For the purpose
of Ganglia the sockets/cores/threads info is purely for inventory. And
we are likely going to add the new information to our metrics.
But - we still need to find a way to extract the infor :-)
Cheers
Martin
PS: I have likely killed the CC this time. Sorry.
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www: http://www.knobisoft.de
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