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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 13:43:56 -0400
From:      Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Top only showing one active CPU on HTT system
Message-ID:  <200505241343.58666.kellers@njit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200505241200.55346.kirk@strauser.com>
References:  <200505241053.36377.kirk@strauser.com> <200505241159.24346.kellers@njit.edu> <200505241200.55346.kirk@strauser.com>

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On Tuesday 24 May 2005 01:00 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 10:59, Tim Kellers wrote:
> > The acpi_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf might do the trick.
>
> Actually, it turns out that I have to set machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1
> for HTT to work now.
>
> Speaking of which, is that tunable documented anywhere besides the HTT
> security PR?  It's not in the 5.4-STABLE /usr/src/UPDATING or anyplace else
> I've looked, so I was more than a bit surprised to find that such an
> important default was changed without much notice.  I imagine a lot of
> people read the PR much as I did: "blah, blah, theoretical, doesn't affect
> me, next message"...

I even read the SA and it managed to completely pass through my head without 
hitting one brain cell.



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