Re: CPUID and CPU STATE

2012-03-06 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 2:16:03 am Maninya M wrote: > 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? The hardware cpuid is ma

Re: CPUID and CPU STATE

2012-03-05 Thread Maninya M
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 wrote: > On Friday, March 02, 2012 2:20:00 am Man

Re: CPUID and CPU STATE

2012-03-05 Thread John Baldwin
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

CPUID and CPU STATE

2012-03-01 Thread Maninya M
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? How is the CPUSTATES value obtained/changed with hardware in the source code? Which system commands for the above? -- Maninya __