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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:00:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>, Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt
Message-ID:  <20030131145804.S1357-100000@femme>
In-Reply-To: <20030131194817.335B72A89E@canning.wemm.org>

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Peter Wemm wrote:

>
> Personally, I doubt that HTT will buy much on FreeBSD, apart from being
> buzzword compliant.  I'd actually like a compile option or boot tunable so
> that it to be turned on or off (and treated like a regular Xeon SMP
> system).  Single-physical-cpu systems already have this compile option, it
> is called 'options SMP' :-).  But if you have 2x P4 Xeons, it would be nice to
> be able to use them as a normal 2 way system rather than 4 logical ways.
>

boot tunable would rock, then I wouldn;t have to had had BIOS access to a
machine thats 2 hours away by car to turn HTT off (it just happened that
it was enabled by default when they installed the machine)
(which of course made it nice to try this on, but getting the second set
of data with HTT turned off is going to be a pain)

What I need is someone with an HTT capable SMP box that can turn it on and
off to run these benchmarks with HTT on and off... then we'd have a good
idea of the performance hit.

-Trish

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