* Peter Zijlstra (pet...@infradead.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:49:58AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > On 07/12/16 08:05, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The CPU in question (and /proc/cpuinfo should show this) has four cores
> > with a total of eight threads. The "siblings" and "cpu cores" fields in
> > /proc/cpuinfo should show the same thing. So I am utterly confused
> > about what is unexpected here?
>
> Typically threads are enumerated differently on Intel parts. Namely:
>
> cpu_id = code_id + nr_cores * smt_id
>
> which gives, for a 4 core, 2 thread part:
>
> 0-3: core 0-3, smt0
> 4-7: core 0-3, smt1
>
> My Core i7-2600k for example has:
>
> $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/thread_siblings_list
> 0,4
> 1,5
> 2,6
> 3,7
> 0,4
> 1,5
> 2,6
> 3,7
>
> The ordering Paul has, namely 0,1 for core0,smt{0,1} is not something
> I've ever seen on an Intel part. AMD otoh does enumerate their CMT stuff
> like what Paul has.
Paul's isn't unique:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/thread_siblings_list
0-1
0-1
2-3
2-3
i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz (Dual core with hyperthread, Thinkpad t530, fedora 24)
Dave
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