Re: getting processor numbers

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>]

* Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com) wrote:

> glibc for a long time provides functionality to retrieve the number
> through sysconf() and this is what fortunately most programs use.  The
> problem is that we are currently using /proc/cpuinfo since this is all
> there was available at that time.  Creating /proc/cpuinfo takes the
> kernel quite a long time, unfortunately (I think Jakub said it is mainly
> the interrupt information).

It's not only expensive to create, it's expensive and annoying to parse;
I don't think it is vaguely consistent accross different architectures
not to mention kernel versions.

Dave
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