Re: getting the cpuid for a userspace process ?

From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:20:00 +0300
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 01:42:45PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 11:06:22 am Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > as the subject says... is there any way to get the current
> > CPU id for a userspace process (of course,
> > valid only at the time the function is called as the
> > process might be arbitrarily moved while it runs)
> 
> Not from userland, no.  On x86 you can use cpuid to fetch the APIC ID, but 
> that does not map 1:1 to FreeBSD cpu IDs.
Not quite so. The kern.proc sysctls do provide oncpu and lastcpu
information, which, I believe, is used by top. But this is very slow way
to get cpu id.
Received on Tue Oct 25 2011 - 16:20:25 UTC

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