Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:25:03 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 mp_machdep.c src/sys/i386/i386 mp_machdep.c Message-ID: <473667FF.2010005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4735008D.7030600@FreeBSD.org> References: <200711081945.lA8JjKcW080540@repoman.freebsd.org> <47337724.9040108@FreeBSD.org> <47337940.6040909@root.org> <47340B74.9070004@freebsd.org> <4734B13C.6050008@root.org> <4735008D.7030600@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: > For what it is worth I think Nate has the correct point. We should not > force this setting upon each and every user if it can realistically > affect only 0.0001% of our userbase. We're not forcing anything -- it's configurable via loader.conf. All we're talking about is changing the default value. > By the way, I wonder how sun4v (aka Niagara) fares in this respect. As > long as I know, they use similar concept, when 8 physical cores can run > 32 threads. Should we disable it by default there as well? ;-) I haven't seen any experiments done on sun4v, but I'm less concerned about it since I believe sun4v boxes are used more often for large computing jobs rather than for interactive logins with many untrusted users. Of course, if/when we have scheduler support for keeping different users on separate cores, this should be applied to sun4v as well. Colin Percivalhome | help
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