diff --git a/cpu/cpu_linux.go b/cpu/cpu_linux.go
index 735bd29..a660dd4 100644
--- a/cpu/cpu_linux.go
+++ b/cpu/cpu_linux.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -311,7 +312,23 @@ func CountsWithContext(ctx context.Context, logical bool) (int, error) {
 		}
 		return ret, nil
 	}
-	// physical cores https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/d01a9eaa35a8aadf6c519839e987a49d8be2d891/psutil/_pslinux.py#L628
+	// physical cores
+	// https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/122174a10b75c9beebe15f6c07dcf3afbe3b120d/psutil/_pslinux.py#L621-L629
+	var threadSiblingsLists = make(map[string]bool)
+	if files, err := filepath.Glob(common.HostSys("devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]*/topology/thread_siblings_list")); err == nil {
+		for _, file := range files {
+			lines, err := common.ReadLines(file)
+			if err != nil || len(lines) != 1 {
+				continue
+			}
+			threadSiblingsLists[lines[0]] = true
+		}
+		ret := len(threadSiblingsLists)
+		if ret != 0 {
+			return ret, nil
+		}
+	}
+	// https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/122174a10b75c9beebe15f6c07dcf3afbe3b120d/psutil/_pslinux.py#L631-L652
 	filename := common.HostProc("cpuinfo")
 	lines, err := common.ReadLines(filename)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/cpu/cpu_test.go b/cpu/cpu_test.go
index a2886f1..8ae9a82 100644
--- a/cpu/cpu_test.go
+++ b/cpu/cpu_test.go
@@ -71,8 +71,18 @@ func TestCpu_counts(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("error %v", err)
 	}
 	if v == 0 {
-		t.Errorf("could not get CPU counts: %v", v)
+		t.Errorf("could not get logical CPU counts: %v", v)
 	}
+	t.Logf("logical cores: %d", v)
+	v, err = Counts(false)
+	skipIfNotImplementedErr(t, err)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("error %v", err)
+	}
+	if v == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("could not get physical CPU counts: %v", v)
+	}
+	t.Logf("physical cores: %d", v)
 }
 
 func TestCPUTimeStat_String(t *testing.T) {