On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:51:33 +0300 Kostik Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> >
> > You can achieve that now with cpuset. :) (See my ping-pong test program
> > recently which used cpuid to fetch the APIC ID to test for ping-ponging in
> > the scheduler.)
>
> If this is a backout request (for cpuid functionality) then we will do it.
>
> But I considered it much easier and cleaner to do
> fd = open("/dev/cpuctlN", O_RDWR);
> ioctl(fd, CPUCTL_CPUID, &x);
> if (x.y)
> ioctl(fd, CPUCTL_WRMSR, ...);
> close(fd);
> then
> fd = open("/dev/cpuctlN", O_RDWR);
> cpuset(...); /* bind to cpu */
> __asm__("cpuid" : =0 (x));
> if (x.y)
> ioctl(fd, CPUCTL_WRMSR, ...);
> cpuset(...); /* restore prev mask */
> close(fd);
>
One of the reasons to leave the cpuid functionality, present in
sysutils/devcpu, in cpuctl(4) was the fact, the software that
is supposed to use wrmsr/rdmsr calls, also usually perform
cpuid checks as well, and it will be clean to provide access to
all of this via a single interface.
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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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