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Date:      Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:28:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trish Lynch <trish@bsdunix.net>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hype(r)threading
Message-ID:  <20030303142353.C830-100000@femme>
In-Reply-To: <0bf901c2e18d$95bbb3e0$932a40c1@PHE>

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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Petri Helenius wrote:

>
> I seem to want to quite the opposite what other people would like to happ=
en,
> we have a supermicro P4DPR board with two Xeon=B4s. Since lately the kern=
el seems to
> want to launch the virtual cores regardless of BIOS setting of HyperThrea=
ding being
> [Disabled].
>
> Any ideas how to disable the cores since our workload is does not benefit=
 from
> having more than two cores in a machine.
>
> Pete
>

Currently, AFAIK, there is no way to do this.

Depending on what you are doing you can increase performance slightly by
setting machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=3D1

-Trish

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