SMT now could be disabled via "/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control". Status shown in "/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/active" simply as "0" / "1".
If this knob isn't here then fallback to checking topology as before. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru> --- tools/perf/util/smt.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/smt.c b/tools/perf/util/smt.c index dc37b5abd1c3..c398528d1006 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/smt.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/smt.c @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ int smt_on(void) if (cached) return cached_result; + if (sysfs__read_int("devices/system/cpu/smt/active", &active) > 0) + goto done; + ncpu = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF); for (cpu = 0; cpu < ncpu; cpu++) { char fn[256]; @@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ int smt_on(void) active = str && (strchr(str, ',') != NULL || strchr(str, '-') != NULL); free(str); +done: if (!cached) { cached_result = active; cached = true;