From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 6 13:12:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EF010656AC for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:12:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C82D8FC1D for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.73]) by qmta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3QTz1f0031ap0As52RC5i6; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:12:05 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3RC41f0083LrwQ23iRC5zF; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:12:05 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E1559B425; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:12:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:12:03 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Andriy Gapon Message-ID: <20100906131203.GA80251@icarus.home.lan> References: <201007141414.o6EEEUx9014690@lurza.secnetix.de> <4C782D3B.6020407@icyb.net.ua> <201008271743.29393.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <4C7835E6.6070309@icyb.net.ua> <4C7A2782.5040009@freebsd.org> <4C84DBE6.5010809@freebsd.org> <20100906122325.GA78727@icarus.home.lan> <4C84E4E1.8010709@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C84E4E1.8010709@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch for topology detection of Intel CPUs X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:12:06 -0000 On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:56:01PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 06/09/2010 15:23 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > > On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:17:42PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 29/08/2010 12:25 Andriy Gapon said the following: > >>> The below patch is against sources in FreeBSD tree, it should be applied > >>> either to sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c or sys/i386/i386/mp_machdep.c depending > >>> on the desired architecture: > >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/intel-cpu-topo.diff > >> > >> I see that I am not getting as many testers as I expected, so I am going to commit > >> the patch. > >> > >> You still have a short while to either objectively object to the patch or to > >> voluntary test it :-) > > > > I would gladly assist in testing this, except there doesn't appear to be > > an authoritative statement that it will apply to RELENG_8; when I see > > WIP, I assume -CURRENT/HEAD only. > > patch -C is much better than any statement :) > > > Let me know, since all the systems I have are Intel multi-core. > > Yes, the patch should be applicable to stable/8 without any issues. Great, thanks! I'll be testing this out on two separate systems, both RELENG_8: - Supermicro X7SBA + Intel C2D E8400 (stepping 10) - Supermicro X7SBL-LN2 + Intel C2D E6600 (stepping 6) I'll make sure to provide what the topology looks like before and after. Is CPU-relevant dmesg output sufficient? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |