On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:51:44AM -0400, R, Durgadoss wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > > Hi, > > > > I did some testing on a SandyBridge system with two CPUs. > > > > If I take all cores of the second CPU offline, the second instance of the > > driver > > still sticks around and tries to display the package sensor temperature. > > However, the temperature is always reported as "N/A". I think the driver > > instance should be removed if all cores of a CPU are offline. > > I agree with you that the driver instance should be removed, in this case. > But how can we find that all cores of a CPU are offline ? > One way is to use a "count" variable and manipulate it when cores are > Onlined/offlined. Kindly let me know of any better ways to implement this. > You can define a counter in platform_data, or write a simple function to count the number of online cores for a given physical processor in pdev_list. A simpler mechanism might be to use cpu_core_mask(). Not sure if that works, though. Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
