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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:06:46 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Command to start and stop a cpu
Message-ID:  <200601171206.48133.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720601162002j3fad952ar73c3be8b6197aaa9@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060116185354.GA22674@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20060116192146.GA16298@ra.aabs> <84dead720601162002j3fad952ar73c3be8b6197aaa9@mail.gmail.com>

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On Monday 16 January 2006 23:02, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> hb> To my knowledge FreeBSD does not support that feature on any platform.
>
> However, you can disable CPUs using the 'machdep.hlt_cpus' sysctl knob,
> ensuring that no thread is scheduled on such a CPU.  This knob is described
> in smp(4).

I think that is x86-only though.  I don't think there is support for that on 
sparc64.

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