Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:54:43 +0100 From: Robert Bopko <zero@estimese.net> To: Mark <sitedrifter@netscape.net> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update on SE7500 P4 SMP.. Message-ID: <20030107155443.GA14554@finom.estimese.net> In-Reply-To: <3E1A2BBD.4060107@netscape.net> References: <3E1A2BBD.4060107@netscape.net>
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hi, we are talking about intel se7500cw2 server board, other e7500 chipset motherboards like supermicro works fine. On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:22:05PM -0500, Mark wrote: > Sorry if I am off base here but I have not seen this complete thread but > hopefully what I write might help. > > I am running FreeBSD 4.7 stable (latest kernel source) on a P4 dual Xeon > Supermicro motherboard. When I recompiled the kernel for SMP and > rebooted it would always panic on the APIC interupt delivery. I then > enabled (just trying different things after researching this problem) > hyperthreading in the bios. The machine booted into FreeBSD with no > problems and 4 CPUs are showing as it should. (Hyperthreading is > basically a virtual CPU within the CPU). I am currently running CPU > intesive programs and the machine seems stable. > > > The only issue I have is that dmesg shows P4 1066Mhz speed which is > wrong as these are 2.4Ghz Xeons.I also tried the define bus_clock hack > but it did not help either but I was mostly hoping it would help with > proper CPU speed detection.The motherboard I am using is a Supermicro > SUPER X5DAE Intel 7505 chipset. > > Here are some screen captures of my dmesg output and also top > > APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery > APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 > SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 23651 book 64 0 13604K 12892K CPU2 2 92:56 99.02% 99.02% perl > 25648 root -6 0 1200K 788K CPU0 1 0:03 3.74% 3.61% find > 25591 sysadmin 28 0 1908K 1040K CPU1 0 0:01 0.00% 0.00% top > > > I can only guess FreeBSD needs to support these chipsets when > Hyperthreading is disabled, unless it needs to be but I doubt that. > > > Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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