Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:59:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Subject: Re: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt Message-ID: <XFMail.20030131155900.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301311241170.45015-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On 31-Jan-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> AT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,<b28>,ACC> >> >> >> >> It has HTT set but it's only a 1.2GHz box and I heard somewhere that only >> >> 2+ GHz P4's had hyperthreading. I noticed some MFCs to stable that >> >> suggested hyperthreading support but I do not know if full hyperthreading >> >> support has been MFCd yet or is intended to be MFCd to -stable. >> > >> > AFAIK, full hyperthreading support, as it is, has been merged to >> > -stable. It consists of a patch to recognize the virtual CPUs, so they >> > will be dealt with like any SMP system, as long as HTT is enabled on the >> > BIOS. >> >> Well, sort of. We have no way of knowing if it is off in the BIOS unless >> we use the ACPI tables to enumerate CPU's (which we don't), so turning it >> off in the BIOS won't turn it off in FreeBSD for the time being. :) >> > I have a 2,8GHz p4 here which has HTT and has a bios option for > > Interrupt mode: [APIC/PIC] > > I'm using APIC mode but an SMP (today's 4.x) kernel > panics imediatly saying it can;t find an APIC. You need to have an mptable for it to work. The mptable will only list one processor, but it still needs to be there. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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