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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:50:26 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 mp_machdep.c src/sys/i386/i386 mp_machdep.c
Message-ID:  <444D4822.3070102@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <662E8E58-F87F-4098-B573-06A863B72B7B@lassitu.de>
References:  <200604242117.k3OLH2RG032117@repoman.freebsd.org> <662E8E58-F87F-4098-B573-06A863B72B7B@lassitu.de>

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Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Am 24.04.2006 um 23:17 schrieb Colin Percival:
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/amd64/amd64      mp_machdep.c
>>     sys/i386/i386        mp_machdep.c
> 
> I do not pretend to understand the background, but from your description
> it sounds like performance on Core Duo machines will be bad unless this
> change is made, or the potentially dangerous sysctl is active. If that
> is indeed the case, will this change make it into 6.1?

I'm not part of the release engineering team, but I think they're hoping
to merge this before the release, yes.

If anyone has a Core Duo system running -CURRENT and can tell me what
# sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed
# sysctl machdep.hlt_cpus
says before and after this change, it would probably speed up the process
of merging this into other branches.

Colin Percival




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