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Re: [CRM114spam]: Re: Odd performance results

From "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [CRM114spam]: Re: Odd performance results
Date 2016-07-12 21:40 +0200
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* Peter Zijlstra (peterz@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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Odd performance results "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-10 06:30 +0200
  Re: Odd performance results Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-07-10 07:20 +0200
    Re: Odd performance results "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-10 16:50 +0200
      Re: Odd performance results Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-07-12 17:00 +0200
        Re: Odd performance results "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-12 17:10 +0200
          Re: Odd performance results "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-07-12 20:00 +0200
            Re: Odd performance results "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-12 20:30 +0200
            Re: Odd performance results Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-07-12 21:00 +0200
              Re: [CRM114spam]: Re: Odd performance results "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org> - 2016-07-12 21:40 +0200
                Re: [CRM114spam]: Re: Odd performance results "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-12 22:10 +0200
                Re: [CRM114spam]: Re: Odd performance results Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-13 09:30 +0200
              Re: Odd performance results Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-07-13 09:20 +0200
                Re: Odd performance results Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-07-13 14:40 +0200
                Re: Odd performance results Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-07-13 14:40 +0200
                Re: Odd performance results "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-13 16:10 +0200

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