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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 13:27:23 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on dual core Opterons - stupid buildworld test
Message-ID:  <200505191327.23295.jkim@niksun.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050519010828.GA64608@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <428B6FC1.3000907@fsn.hu> <20050518180521.GB9719@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050519010828.GA64608@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Wednesday 18 May 2005 09:08 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:05:21AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:29:00PM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > > Attila Nagy pí?e v st 18. 05. 2005 v 18:39 +0200:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I did some buildworld tests on an HP BL45p with 4 2,2 GHz
> > > > Opterons.
> > > >
> > > > Sequential time make buildworld -jX times (if there is a
> > > > missing iteration, then the build has failed):
> > > >
> > > > http://people.fsn.hu/~bra/bl45p/dmesg.boot
> > > >
> > > >  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> > >
> > > So dual-core Opterons report into system as Hyperthreading?
> > > Uncool.
> >
> > What the AMD reps said at a session I attended last year is that
> > they report as supporting hyper threading, but set another bit to
> > say that they are actually real cores.  We probably need to find
> > out what that bit is.
>
> I'm taking care of this.  Please no one commit any AMD Dual-core
> related patches (especially WRT HTT) with out passing them by me.

Okay, feel free to ignore/reuse my patch, then.

Jung-uk Kim

> thanks,
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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