Re: [hwloc-users] Puzzled by the number of cores on i5-7500

2018-01-25 Thread Olivier Cessenat
I assume you need other people to answer as well, but here is what I get: $ sysctl -a | grep ^hw hw.ncpu: 4 hw.byteorder: 1234 hw.memsize: 8589934592 hw.activecpu: 4 hw.physicalcpu: 4 hw.physicalcpu_max: 4 hw.logicalcpu: 4 hw.logicalcpu_max: 4 hw.cputype: 7 hw.cpusubtype: 8 hw.cpu64bit_capable: 1

Re: [hwloc-users] Puzzled by the number of cores on i5-7500

2018-01-25 Thread Brice Goglin
It looks like our Mac OS X backend doesn't properly handle processors that support hyperthreading without actually having hyperthreads enabled in hardware. Your processor has 4-core without HT but it's based on a processor with up to 8 cores and 16 threads. Our current code uses the latter and