From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Feb 3 14:46:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from fep06-svc.mail.telepac.pt (fep06-svc.mail.telepac.pt [194.65.5.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E18C37B417 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from byblos ([213.13.38.182]) by fep06-svc.mail.telepac.pt (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with SMTP id <20020203225027.FFIB26271.fep06-svc.mail.telepac.pt@byblos> for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:50:27 +0000 Message-ID: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> From: "Jorge Neto" To: Subject: Is smp kernel on ? How to tell ? Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 22:46:51 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1AC3B.817AA130" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1AC3B.817AA130 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I compiled the kernel with smp options from a copy of the GENERIC kernel = in FreeBSD 4.4 , all went fine. Buit xosview and top shows only one = processor. How can I tell ? (I am almost sure it is not on the 2 cpu). In the boot messages I see "cpu1: launched !" (not cpu2). I tried to 'make depend' with the "options NCPU=3D2" but it didn't = allow this saying: "NCPU is not a know / valid option". What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to fix any possible bug ? Thanks in advance. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1AC3B.817AA130 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I compiled the kernel with smp options = from a copy=20 of the GENERIC kernel in FreeBSD 4.4 , all went fine. Buit xosview and = top shows=20 only one processor. How can I tell ? (I am almost sure it is not on the = 2=20 cpu).
 
In the boot messages I see "cpu1: = launched !" (not=20 cpu2).
 
I tried to 'make depend'  with the = "options=20 NCPU=3D2" but it didn't allow this saying: "NCPU is not a know / valid=20 option".
What am I doing wrong, or what can I do = to fix any=20 possible bug ?
 
Thanks in = advance.
------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1AC3B.817AA130-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Feb 3 16:12:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D9537B419 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7C3BC7821B; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:42:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 10:42:14 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jorge Neto Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is smp kernel on ? How to tell ? Message-ID: <20020204104214.A90773@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] One line per paragraph. On Saturday, 2 February 2002 at 22:46:51 -0000, Jorge Neto wrote: > I compiled the kernel with smp options from a copy of the GENERIC > kernel in FreeBSD 4.4 , all went fine. Buit xosview and top shows > only one processor. How can I tell ? (I am almost sure it is not on > the 2 cpu). > In the boot messages I see "cpu1: launched !" (not cpu2). How many CPUs do you have? They're numbered from 0. > I tried to 'make depend' with the "options NCPU=2" but it didn't > allow this saying: "NCPU is not a know / valid option". What am I > doing wrong, or what can I do to fix any possible bug ? I don't see a bug here. It looks as if everything is working. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Feb 3 17: 3:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net (mclean.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062FD37B41F for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:03:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-2injgb1.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.121.193.97] helo=europa2) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16XXXT-0001Fd-00; Sun, 03 Feb 2002 20:03:19 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020203200157.00da4ed0@imatowns.com> X-Sender: ggombert@imatowns.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 20:01:57 -0500 To: "Jorge Neto" , From: Glenn Gombert Subject: Re: Is smp kernel on ? How to tell ? In-Reply-To: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you do a 'top' you should see process for both cpu's if you have succesfully configured your system for SMP operation :) At 10:46 PM 2/2/2002 -0000, Jorge Neto wrote: > I compiled the kernel with smp options from a copy of the GENERIC >kernel in FreeBSD 4.4 , all went fine. Buit xosview and top shows only one >processor. How can I tell ? (I am almost sure it is not on the 2 cpu). >In the boot messages I see "cpu1: launched !" (not cpu2). with the >"options NCPU=2" but it didn't allow this saying: "NCPU is not a know / >valid option". What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to fix any >possible bug ? Thanks in advance. Glenn Gombert ggombert@imatowns.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Feb 3 22: 7: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.idsi.net (66-168-58-99.jvl.wi.charter.com [66.168.58.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80D637B416 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:07:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by marvin.idsi.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1446qt00441; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:06:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mkm) Message-Id: <200202040406.g1446qt00441@marvin.idsi.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: mkm Reply-To: mkm@idsi.net To: "Jorge Neto" , Subject: Re: Is smp kernel on ? How to tell ? Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:06:52 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> In-Reply-To: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday 02 February 2002 04:46 pm, Jorge Neto wrote: > In the boot messages I see "cpu1: launched !" (not cpu2). 'cpu1' is your second processor, looks fine to me. -- Kyle Martin mkm@idsi.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Feb 4 6:53:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from web.themoscowtimes.com (proxy2.imedia.ru [195.34.60.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADFB37B425 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 06:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from GOGI (gogi.imedia.ru [172.17.120.65]) by web.themoscowtimes.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g14Er3J68450 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:53:04 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from gogi@themoscowtimes.com) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:52:59 +0300 From: Igor Lepechin X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Educational Reply-To: "Igor A. Lepechin" Organization: The Moscow Times X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <15152039138.20020204175259@themoscowtimes.com> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform In-Reply-To: <3C5C1EEF.26AAF65E@netbridge.ru> References: <3C5C1EEF.26AAF65E@netbridge.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Date: 04.02.2002, Time: 17:43 Dear All, FreeBSD version 4.4 and I'm compile kernel with SMP support: # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O On boot process I have follow messages: Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (1004.26-MHz 686-class CPU) Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Features=0x387fbff Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: real memory = 1073741824 (1048576K bytes) Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: avail memory = 1041907712 (1017488K bytes) Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #1 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: io0 (APIC): apic id: 4, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: io1 (APIC): apic id: 5, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec01000 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0308000. Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc030809c. Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: pcib0: on motherboard Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 13 -> irq 2 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 14 -> irq 5 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 15 -> irq 9 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: pci0: on pcib0 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: pcib1: on motherboard Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 10 -> irq 11 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 11 -> irq 16 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 4 -> irq 17 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: pci1: on pcib1 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 --------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Somebody knows as it it is possible to fix? And in what a problem? -- Best regards, Igor Lepechin WEB-master The Moscow Times Business ======== ICQ: 15118929 E-mail: gogi@themoscowtimes.com Web-site: http://www.themoscowtimes.com Personal ======== ICQ: 15095467 E-mail: gogi@gogi.spb.ru Web-site: http://www.gogi.spb.ru/staff/gogi/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Feb 4 7:39: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from web10503.mail.yahoo.com (web10503.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AD7037B436 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:38:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020204153839.25515.qmail@web10503.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.241.129.241] by web10503.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 04 Feb 2002 07:38:39 PST Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:38:39 -0800 (PST) From: Andy Ellifson Reply-To: andy@ellifson.com Subject: Re: Abit VP6 Dual Processor Board To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020203141708.M2189@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The issue I have is when I do do the same installation on a Compaq DL380 with dual processors dmesg says the following: SMP: AP CPU #0 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Then when I go into 'top' it will show both processors. On this Abit board it only shows the second processor launching (#1) and top only shows one processor instead of two. --- Greg Lehey wrote: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > MUA mangles quoted text. > > On Saturday, 2 February 2002 at 19:40:07 -0800, Andy Ellifson wrote: > > --- Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 2 February 2002 at 15:06:12 -0800, Andy Ellifson wrote: > >>> > >>> I have an Abit VP6 Dual processor board and I am unable to get the > >>> second CPU to launch under FreeBSD v4.4-RELEASE or v4.5-RELEASE > >>> after compiling the kernel for SMP. > >>> > >>> The web site for the motherboard is: > >>> http://www.abit-usa.com/eng/product/mb/vp6.htm > >>> > >>> Is this one of the boards that doesn't fully support Intel MP spec > >>> and therefore will not run under SMP as a dual-processor system? > >> > >> Very unlikely. I don't think they've made any of those for some > >> time. What does dmesg say? > > > > Here is what dmesg says: > > > > FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 1 09:39:02 MST 2002 > > root@mesaaz1.vwsi.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL > > > > IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard > > cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 > > cpu1 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 > > io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00178011, at 0xfec00000 > > > > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > > So what makes you think it isn't being launched? > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the > original text. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Feb 4 15:26:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from relay-1v.club-internet.fr (relay-1v.club-internet.fr [194.158.96.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275C137B485 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from club-internet.fr (cgy12-141.n.club-internet.fr [195.36.197.141]) by relay-1v.club-internet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7250D16CD; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:25:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3C5F1864.2070100@club-internet.fr> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:25:24 +0100 From: Mathias HARY User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jorge Neto Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is smp kernel on ? How to tell ? References: <000801c1ac3b$81d2d350$b6260dd5@byblos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Find below dmesg and top of my 6 PPro system. As you can see, all cpus are started: 6 dnetc at the same time in top. Also there is no "SMP: AP CPU #0 Launched!" message in dmesg and I think the NCPU is no more valid in 4.x kernel config files. Hope this will help you understand what's happening. -----> dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Sat Dec 22 20:54:45 GMT 2001 mathias@revolution.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/mathias/obj/usr/src/sys/REVOLUTION Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium Pro (233.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x617 Stepping = 7 Features=0xfbff real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 127438848 (124452K bytes) Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 EISA INTCONTROL = 00000e00 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 6, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu2 (AP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu3 (AP): apic id: 2, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu4 (AP): apic id: 4, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu5 (AP): apic id: 5, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 3, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0330000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 2.0 on pci0 eisa0: on isab0 mainboard0: on eisa0 slot 0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xfcf0-0xfcff at device 3.0 on pci0 atapci0: Busmastering DMA not supported ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 pcib1: at device 14.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 ahc0: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0x9bffe000-0x9bffefff irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci1 aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ahc1: port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0x97c00000-0x97dfffff,0x9bffd000-0x9bffdfff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci1 RAID functionality unsupported device_probe_and_attach: ahc1 attach returned 6 ahc1: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0x9bffc000-0x9bffcfff irq 9 at device 8.0 on pci1 ahc1: Using left over BIOS settings aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs pci0: <3Dfx Voodoo Banshee graphics accelerator> at 15.0 irq 10 chip0: at device 20.0 on pci0 pcib2: on motherboard pci2: on pcib2 vr0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0x97aff800-0x97aff8ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci2 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:2a:7e:b1 miibus0: on vr0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0:
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    I'm planing SQL = server. I choose=20 HP LH 6000 server with 4 P-III Xeon CPU 5x18Gb HotSwap RAID. In future I = want to=20 extend it to 6 CPU. I need a SUPER STABLE server. Anyone used such=20 configurations in FreeBSD? How It's works? Dealer told me that SUN = Solaris=20 support 6 CPU greater than FreeBSD... I don't trust him.... :) but I = want 3dr=20 party opinion.
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C1AF13.87B68610-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Feb 6 4: 9:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mailomat.net (mailomat.net [62.157.203.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD7E37B425 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:09:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by mailomat.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g16C8rR56242; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:08:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) Received: from gemini.bnc.net (gemini.bnc.net [62.225.99.33]) by mailomat.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g16C8ne56230; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:08:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) Received: from entity (entity.bnc.net [62.225.99.111]) by gemini.bnc.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g16C8ik69105; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:08:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) From: "Achim Patzner" To: "Vadim Klimenko" , Subject: RE: HP LH 6000 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:09:39 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <002501c1af02$c54e4140$09c442c3@transport.com.ua> Disposition-Notification-To: "Achim Patzner" X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm planing SQL server. I choose HP LH 6000 server with 4 P-III Xeon CPU 5x18Gb HotSwap RAID. In future I want to > extend it to 6 CPU. I need a SUPER STABLE server. Anyone used such configurations in FreeBSD? How It's works? Dealer > told me that SUN Solaris support 6 CPU greater than FreeBSD... I don't trust him.... :) but I want 3dr party opinion. One of our customers is running a Web application on two HP LH4. The chipset is a catastrophe (most _interesting_ hardware (i.e. Intel Express NICs, Mylex controllers etc.) just doesn't work on them (yes, HP checked both machines and told us that the hardware is 100% ok) (currently one of the machines is running on Realtek 8139 controllers because about anythng else causes PCI timeouts) and nothing improved its performance since FreeBSD 4.1... If I had to buy another XEON server I'd build it myself around an Intel 4 or 8 XEON mainboard, Intel's casing and reliable components of my own choice. It's saving money and I'm not stuck with their crappy SCSI controller or their expensive and slow disks. Achim Patzner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 1:14:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from newmx.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C70637B41C for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 01:14:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from myhakas.estpak.ee (myhakas.estpak.ee [194.126.115.54]) by newmx.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDE95DFD2; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:13:13 +0200 (EET) Received: (from vallo@localhost) by myhakas.estpak.ee (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g179EHT40676; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:14:17 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vallo) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:14:17 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Vadim Klimenko Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP LH 6000 Message-ID: <20020207091417.GA40645@myhakas.estpak.ee> Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee References: <002501c1af02$c54e4140$09c442c3@transport.com.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002501c1af02$c54e4140$09c442c3@transport.com.ua> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:38:15PM +0200, Vadim Klimenko wrote: > I'm planing SQL server. I choose HP LH 6000 server with 4 > P-III Xeon CPU 5x18Gb HotSwap RAID. In future I want to extend > it to 6 CPU. I need a SUPER STABLE server. Anyone used such > configurations in FreeBSD? How It's works? Dealer told me that > SUN Solaris support 6 CPU greater than FreeBSD... I don't > trust him.... :) but I want 3dr party opinion. FreeBSD SMP support is plain-and-simply poor for such configuration. Althought x86 Solaris itself is good for this purpose, you'll certainly need to check that hardware is certified and Solaris will make use of all goodies (RAID controller, etc.). There is no room for games if goes to stable SQL server running on SMP platform. -- Vallo Kallaste kalts@estpak.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 2:32: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC1737B434 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 02:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0079.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.79] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Ylq2-0002Fb-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 02:31:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3C625779.52282999@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 02:31:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kalts@estpak.ee Cc: Vadim Klimenko , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP LH 6000 References: <002501c1af02$c54e4140$09c442c3@transport.com.ua> <20020207091417.GA40645@myhakas.estpak.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Vallo Kallaste wrote: > FreeBSD SMP support is plain-and-simply poor for such configuration. > Althought x86 Solaris itself is good for this purpose, you'll > certainly need to check that hardware is certified and Solaris will > make use of all goodies (RAID controller, etc.). > There is no room for games if goes to stable SQL server running on > SMP platform. I thought x86 Solaris was discontinued recently. FreeBSD is pretty much the only game in town that is at or near that level. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 10:14: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from hpux38.dc.engr.scu.edu (hpux38.dc.engr.scu.edu [129.210.16.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3998537B41D for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:14:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dclark@localhost) by hpux38.dc.engr.scu.edu (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g17IDsB25632; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:13:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:13:54 -0800 (PST) From: "Dorr H. Clark" To: Igor Lepechin Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform In-Reply-To: <15152039138.20020204175259@themoscowtimes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Igor Lepechin wrote: > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 > --------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've seen this on a prototype board also, which didn't involve the ServerWorks chips. The system otherwise appeared to function although the testing was not extensive. Is it possible this is just an alarming tone for an otherwise acceptable code path? -dhc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 14: 1:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from prg.traveller.cz (prg.traveller.cz [193.85.2.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AFB37B405 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:01:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from prg.traveller.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prg.traveller.cz (8.12.1[KQ-CZ](1)/8.12.1/pukvis) with ESMTP id g17M1TOJ051208; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:01:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (mime@localhost) by prg.traveller.cz (8.12.1[KQ-CZ](1)/pukvis) with ESMTP id g17M1TRT051205; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:01:29 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:01:29 +0100 (CET) From: Michal Mertl To: "Dorr H. Clark" Cc: Igor Lepechin , Subject: Re: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dorr H. Clark wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Igor Lepechin wrote: > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 > > --------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > I've seen this on a prototype board also, > which didn't involve the ServerWorks chips. > The system otherwise appeared to function > although the testing was not extensive. > > Is it possible this is just an alarming tone > for an otherwise acceptable code path? > I don't know what does it mean either but I can confirm that we have several ASUS CUR-DLS boards with ServerWorks chipset, they all write this on boot too and they work just fine. -- Michal Mertl mime@traveller.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 14:42:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.carnagecopia.com (absinthe.carnagecopia.com [216.187.87.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D54A437B41A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45301 invoked by uid 85); 7 Feb 2002 22:42:13 -0000 Received: from random@carnagecopia.com by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with qmail-scanner-1.03 (uvscan: v4.0.50/v4184. . Clean. Processed in 0.314723 secs); 07 Feb 2002 22:42:13 -0000 Received: from firewall-vancouver.carnagecopia.com (HELO workstation-61) (66.38.134.97) by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 22:42:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:41:55 -0800 From: Vincent Janelle To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform Message-Id: <20020207144155.2e43f800.random@carnagecopia.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Goblin Studios X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been getting this error on a SuperMicro P3TDLE, although the last time I rebooted it, it started to give me errors regarding the IDE bus. Booting in single processor mode works fine. On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:01:29 +0100 (CET) Michal Mertl wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dorr H. Clark wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Igor Lepechin wrote: > > > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is > > > not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: > > > routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin > > > 0--------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > I've seen this on a prototype board also, > > which didn't involve the ServerWorks chips. > > The system otherwise appeared to function > > although the testing was not extensive. > > > > Is it possible this is just an alarming tone > > for an otherwise acceptable code path? > > > > I don't know what does it mean either but I can confirm that we have > several ASUS CUR-DLS boards with ServerWorks chipset, they all write > this on boot too and they work just fine. > > > -- > Michal Mertl > mime@traveller.cz > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 14:44:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.carnagecopia.com (absinthe.carnagecopia.com [216.187.87.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C602137B41A for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45512 invoked by uid 85); 7 Feb 2002 22:44:52 -0000 Received: from random@carnagecopia.com by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with qmail-scanner-1.03 (uvscan: v4.0.50/v4184. . Clean. Processed in 0.12934 secs); 07 Feb 2002 22:44:52 -0000 Received: from firewall-vancouver.carnagecopia.com (HELO workstation-61) (66.38.134.97) by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 22:44:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:44:35 -0800 From: Vincent Janelle To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP LH 6000 Message-Id: <20020207144435.7786f3e9.random@carnagecopia.com> In-Reply-To: <3C625779.52282999@mindspring.com> References: <002501c1af02$c54e4140$09c442c3@transport.com.ua> <20020207091417.GA40645@myhakas.estpak.ee> <3C625779.52282999@mindspring.com> Organization: Goblin Studios X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org They said they were not going to produce a version of solaris 9 for x86. That doesn't mean they discontinued support for 7 and 8. The other options for a box that big are UnixWare and (ugh) Win2k Advanced Server. On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 02:31:21 -0800 Terry Lambert wrote: > Vallo Kallaste wrote: > > FreeBSD SMP support is plain-and-simply poor for such configuration. > > Althought x86 Solaris itself is good for this purpose, you'll > > certainly need to check that hardware is certified and Solaris will > > make use of all goodies (RAID controller, etc.). > > There is no room for games if goes to stable SQL server running on > > SMP platform. > > I thought x86 Solaris was discontinued recently. > > FreeBSD is pretty much the only game in town that is at > or near that level. > > -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 15: 8: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4711F37B41F for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0339.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.84] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Yxdl-0001wl-00; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:07:42 -0800 Message-ID: <3C63085B.C585BF04@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:06:03 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dorr H. Clark" Cc: Igor Lepechin , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Dorr H. Clark" wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Igor Lepechin wrote: > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 > > I've seen this on a prototype board also, > which didn't involve the ServerWorks chips. > The system otherwise appeared to function > although the testing was not extensive. > > Is it possible this is just an alarming tone > for an otherwise acceptable code path? There are two possible breakages: 1) The MP Table does not accurately reflect how the hardware works. That's its job; if it doesn't do its job, then it might as well be replaced with one that daoes (i.e. reflash your MB with a working BIOS, please) 2) The 8254 is not wired into the IO APIC correctly. This is more serious. It's either a motherboard layout flaw, or it's a chipset flaw, and it's going to take an incredible synchronization penalty to work around the problem, to the point that you are much better off with a different motherboard, since the benefit you gain from the additional processor is being spent on workarounds. In either case, the warning is telling you that you are paying a honking performance penalty, since it has to treat both cases as if the hardware is really broken. Ask the vendor if there is a BIOS update, or if their harware design is bogus (ask in that order, or you are unlikely to get a BIOS update... 8-) 8-)). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 15:27:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tecdigital.net (tecdigital.tol.itesm.mx [132.254.97.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E7337B41F for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:27:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from Deathstar (unknown [148.243.246.254]) by mail.tecdigital.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D141D20 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:27:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <001d01c1b02f$076fe650$0a00a8c0@Deathstar> From: "Mario Doria" To: References: <20020207144155.2e43f800.random@carnagecopia.com> Subject: Re: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:26:51 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm also getting the same message, its a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with two PIII @ 733 MHZ. Does anybody else have the same hardware but is not experiencing this problem? Some dmesg output: Changing APIC ID for IO APIC #0 from 0 to 2 on chip Changing APIC ID for IO APIC #1 from 0 to 3 on chip Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #1 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000 io1 (APIC): apic id: 3, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec01000 pcib0: on motherboard IOAPIC #1 intpin 0 -> irq 2 IOAPIC #1 intpin 15 -> irq 5 IOAPIC #1 intpin 14 -> irq 10 APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 > I've been getting this error on a SuperMicro P3TDLE, although the last time I > rebooted it, it started to give me errors regarding the IDE bus. > > Booting in single processor mode works fine. > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:01:29 +0100 (CET) > Michal Mertl wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dorr H. Clark wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Igor Lepechin wrote: > > > > > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is > > > > not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: > > > > routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin > > > > 0--------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > > > I've seen this on a prototype board also, > > > which didn't involve the ServerWorks chips. > > > The system otherwise appeared to function > > > although the testing was not extensive. > > > > > > Is it possible this is just an alarming tone > > > for an otherwise acceptable code path? > > > > > > > I don't know what does it mean either but I can confirm that we have > > several ASUS CUR-DLS boards with ServerWorks chipset, they all write > > this on boot too and they work just fine. > > Mario Doria madd@tecdigital.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Feb 7 15:56:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from blue.gradwell.net (blue.gradwell.net [195.149.39.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A733137B417 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:56:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2619 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2002 23:56:08 -0000 Received: from stonkin.dcs.aber.ac.uk (HELO vaio.gradwell.com) (193.60.15.4) by pop3.gradwell.net with SMTP; 7 Feb 2002 23:56:08 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020207231134.05284c60@indigo.gradwell.net> X-Sender: postmaster%pop3.peterg.org.uk@indigo.gradwell.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 23:16:36 +0000 To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Peter Gradwell Subject: Re: Troubles with MP on ServerWorks NB6635 platform In-Reply-To: <3C63085B.C585BF04@mindspring.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 15:06 07/02/2002 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Igor Lepechin wrote: > > > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 > is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > > > Feb 4 02:44:49 web /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and > IOAPIC #0 intpin 0 [...] >There are two possible breakages: > >1) The MP Table does not accurately reflect how the > hardware works. > > That's its job; if it doesn't do its job, then it > might as well be replaced with one that daoes (i.e. > reflash your MB with a working BIOS, please) > >2) The 8254 is not wired into the IO APIC correctly. > > This is more serious. It's either a motherboard > layout flaw, or it's a chipset flaw, and it's > going to take an incredible synchronization > penalty to work around the problem, to the point > that you are much better off with a different > motherboard, since the benefit you gain from the > additional processor is being spent on workarounds. I have looked at the BIOS updates/fixes for Intel's SCB2 mobo, which (a) does this and (b) does not reboot in FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE except after a cold reboot. http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/scb2/latest_bios.htm However, none of them seem to suggest that they fix anything like this. How do I best report it to the manufacturer? Does the FreeBSD-SMP team have a contact inside intel? thanks peter -- peter gradwell. gradwell dot com Ltd. http://www.gradwell.com/ engineering & hosting services for email, usenet, sms and web. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message