From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 16:42:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F158106564A for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:42:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C0C8FC18 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so1803238bwz.13 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lC4Jqh+exugDs/OEoFPkPWg/5cdd6Gl2R1ZETEB2aVk=; b=RIZFFn6W7xS+/r3ItS9UqRMTL7LOYb0zuTqbky2RzN/oWFGwA0QUQ26jqDXL8SS1at 9GvTN6w8CVRIQzsmcZVDzHynUQiQwhFIUdo5x0NzumiFndnzvi4VvbJqZ9VQh4xL90/o kPSwk4IihY7D8riyLzOC8UctLslygkKvIiq1U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=du534UHeRhVMDCir4XbNUMbhbRicfFFMg5isH86QIOFCQrQLXnbWX4v8XYc5vwFmnM LxFOA0iyGh4viNPnvBRdLZ9oohLd+5FHEYC04wY4J3cxIHwsxbZ+HDJ0zl0YyqlrPLcw ZGbqdo+GuNcddRN86BbglDvhQbQZHPZ+Oki8A= Received: by 10.204.70.206 with SMTP id e14mr1193908bkj.143.1285260161773; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mavbook2.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua [212.86.226.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s34sm786359bkk.1.2010.09.23.09.42.39 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <4C9B8375.4070505@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:42:29 +0300 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Smith References: <4C9B0F2C.20601@FreeBSD.org> <20100924022558.T11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20100924022558.T11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable , Bryce Subject: Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:42:43 -0000 Ian Smith wrote: > So not looking much like overheating. But don't these messages requoted > below seem at all significant? At least, I've never seen them before: > >> est0: on cpu0 >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (20, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 2667, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (19, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 2533, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (18, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 2400, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (17, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 2267, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (16, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 2133, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (15, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 2000, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (14, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 1867, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (13, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 1733, it may be invalid >> est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (12, 21) >> est0: Can't check freq 1600, it may be invalid They are not. It is specifics of EIST behavior on multicore CPUs. It is impossible to test P-states during driver attach (before AP CPUs started). I have already disabled this check for SMP systems. -- Alexander Motin