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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:46:03 +0530
From:      Maninya M <maninya@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPUID and CPU STATE
Message-ID:  <CAC46K3kZCS1__ESeTkRojoi4GqWeE3AfTuz5CQkkw1bhzb4LWg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201203051221.08681.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Thank you.
How do we get hardware cpuid?
Can we change the number of CPUs available to the scheduler (in the
scheduler code) dynamically, say completely cutting off a specific cpu core
from being used at all?



On 5 March 2012 22:51, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday, March 02, 2012 2:20:00 am Maninya M wrote:
> > I was unable to get this information about the cpuid variable in the
> > scheduler source code.
> > How does cpuid get its value from the hardware?
>
> The cpuid is a software ID value assigned during boot.  It is not
> directly related to any specific hardware IDs.
>
> > How is the CPUSTATES value obtained/changed with  hardware in the source
> > code?
>
> Do you mean, does cp_time[] handle hardware changes (hotplug CPUs, etc.)?
> Currently that isn't supported, the kernel assumes the set of CPUs is
> static for a given boot's lifetime.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>



-- 
Maninya



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