cpuid

cpuid

Package cpuid provides information about the CPU running the current program.

CPU features are detected on startup, and kept for fast access through the life of the application. Currently x86 / x64 (AMD64/i386), ARM (ARM64), and RISC-V (RV64) are supported, and no external C (cgo) code is used, which should make the library very easy to use.

You can access the CPU information by accessing the shared CPU variable of the cpuid library.

Package home: https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid

installing

go get -u github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 using modules. Drop v2 for others.

Installing binary:

go install github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2/cmd/cpuid@latest

Or download binaries from release page: https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid/releases

Homebrew

For macOS/Linux users, you can install via brew

$ brew install cpuid

example

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Sample output:

>go run main.go
Name: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
PhysicalCores: 16
ThreadsPerCore: 2
LogicalCores: 32
Family 23 Model: 113 Vendor ID: AMD
Features: ADX,AESNI,AVX,AVX2,BMI1,BMI2,CLMUL,CMOV,CX16,F16C,FMA3,HTT,HYPERVISOR,LZCNT,MMX,MMXEXT,NX,POPCNT,RDRAND,RDSEED,RDTSCP,SHA,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,SSE4,SSE42,SSE4A,SSSE3
Cacheline bytes: 64
L1 Data Cache: 32768 bytes
L1 Instruction Cache: 32768 bytes
L2 Cache: 524288 bytes
L3 Cache: 16777216 bytes
Frequency 0 hz
We have Streaming SIMD 2 Extensions

usage

The cpuid.CPU provides access to CPU features. Use cpuid.CPU.Supports() to check for CPU features. A faster cpuid.CPU.Has() is provided which will usually be inlined by the gc compiler.

To test a larger number of features, they can be combined using f := CombineFeatures(CMOV, CMPXCHG8, X87, FXSR, MMX, SYSCALL, SSE, SSE2), etc. This can be using with cpuid.CPU.HasAll(f) to quickly test if all features are supported.

Note that for some cpu/os combinations some features will not be detected. amd64 has rather good support and should work reliably on all platforms.

Note that hypervisors may not pass through all CPU features through to the guest OS, so even if your host supports a feature it may not be visible on guests.

arm64 feature detection

Not all operating systems provide ARM features directly and there is no safe way to do so for the rest.

Currently arm64/linux and arm64/freebsd should be quite reliable. arm64/darwin adds features expected from the M1 processor, but a lot remains undetected.

A DetectARM() can be used if you are able to control your deployment, it will detect CPU features, but may crash if the OS doesn't intercept the calls. A -cpu.arm flag for detecting unsafe ARM features can be added. See below.

Note that currently only features are detected on ARM, no additional information is currently available.

flags

It is possible to add flags that affects cpu detection.

For this the Flags() command is provided.

This must be called before flag.Parse() AND after the flags have been parsed Detect() must be called.

This means that any detection used in init() functions will not contain these flags.

Example:

package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2"
)

func main() {
	cpuid.Flags()
	flag.Parse()
	cpuid.Detect()

	// Test if we have these specific features:
	if cpuid.CPU.Supports(cpuid.SSE, cpuid.SSE2) {
		fmt.Println("We have Streaming SIMD 2 Extensions")
	}
}

commandline

Download as binary from: https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid/releases

Install from source:

go install github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2/cmd/cpuid@latest

Example

λ cpuid
Name: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
Vendor String: AuthenticAMD
Vendor ID: AMD
PhysicalCores: 16
Threads Per Core: 2
Logical Cores: 32
CPU Family 23 Model: 113
Features: ADX,AESNI,AVX,AVX2,BMI1,BMI2,CLMUL,CLZERO,CMOV,CMPXCHG8,CPBOOST,CX16,F16C,FMA3,FXSR,FXSROPT,HTT,HYPERVISOR,LAHF,LZCNT,MCAOVERFLOW,MMX,MMXEXT,MOVBE,NX,OSXSAVE,POPCNT,RDRAND,RDSEED,RDTSCP,SCE,SHA,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,SSE4,SSE42,SSE4A,SSSE3,SUCCOR,X87,XSAVE
Microarchitecture level: 3
Cacheline bytes: 64
L1 Instruction Cache: 32768 bytes
L1 Data Cache: 32768 bytes
L2 Cache: 524288 bytes
L3 Cache: 16777216 bytes

JSON Output:

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Check CPU microarch level

λ cpuid --check-level=3
2022/03/18 17:04:40 AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
2022/03/18 17:04:40 Microarchitecture level 3 is supported. Max level is 3.
Exit Code 0

λ cpuid --check-level=4
2022/03/18 17:06:18 AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
2022/03/18 17:06:18 Microarchitecture level 4 not supported. Max level is 3.
Exit Code 1

Available flags

x86 & amd64