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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 2008 23:21:07 +0400
From:      Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile cpuctl.4 src/sys/amd64/amd64 support.S src/sys/amd64/conf NOTES src/sys/amd64/include cpufunc.h specialreg.h src/sys/conf files.amd64 files.i386 src/sys/dev/cpuctl cpuctl.c ...
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In-Reply-To: <20080808185133.GG97161@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:51:33 +0300
Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> mentioned:

> >=20
> > You can achieve that now with cpuset. :)  (See my ping-pong test progra=
m=20
> > recently which used cpuid to fetch the APIC ID to test for ping-ponging=
 in=20
> > the scheduler.)
>=20
> If this is a backout request (for cpuid functionality) then we will do it.
>=20
> But I considered it much easier and cleaner to do
> 	fd =3D open("/dev/cpuctlN", O_RDWR);
> 	ioctl(fd, CPUCTL_CPUID, &x);
> 	if (x.y)
> 		ioctl(fd, CPUCTL_WRMSR, ...);
> 	close(fd);
> then
> 	fd =3D open("/dev/cpuctlN", O_RDWR);
> 	cpuset(...); /* bind to cpu */
> 	__asm__("cpuid" : =3D0 (x));
> 	if (x.y)
> 		ioctl(fd, CPUCTL_WRMSR, ...);
> 	cpuset(...); /* restore prev mask */
> 	close(fd);
>=20

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.

--=20
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE

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