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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:59:23 -0800
From:      Brendon and Wendy <brendy33@attbi.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mp_machdep.c patch
Message-ID:  <200302041759.23937.brendy33@attbi.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030204142838.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.20030204142838.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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Yep, the apic ids are the same with/without the htt patch.

When you say "is a problem with your motherboard" do you mean a physical=20
design flaw, a fault or a BIOS issue? It does run HTT under linux and win=
XP.=20
I dont have either of those OSes on the machine right now, so I cant dump=
 the=20
diagnostic info. Linux did need the ACPI SMP information to find the=20
extra "cores".

Thanks for the reply.
Brendon


On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:28 am, you wrote:
> On 04-Feb-2003 Brendon and Wendy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Saw the announce for the mp_machdep.c patch for hyperthreading.
> > Installed, built kernel and world. Everything seems fine.
> >
> > Question - how does one determine whether the hyperthreading working?=
 My
> > DMESG is below, as well as output from top. Booting with HTT disabled
> > looks the same to me.
> >
> > This is on a supermicro p4dce+ (i860) with 2x HTT 2.0G xeons.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Brendon
> >
> > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1=
994
> >         The Regents of the University of California. All rightands
> > reserved. FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #2: Mon Feb  3 18:35:10 PST 2003
> >     root@bigboot.humphrey.world:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BRENDY-STABLE
> > Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> > CPU: Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.00GHz (1982.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0xf24  Stepping =3D 4
> >
> > Features=3D0x3febfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTR=
R,PGE,
> >MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUS H,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
> >   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> > real memory  =3D 536805376 (524224K bytes)
> > avail memory =3D 517742592 (505608K bytes)
> > Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
> > IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
> >  cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  0, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000
> >  cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  1, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000
> >  io0 (APIC): apic id:  2, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec00000
>
> This set of APIC ID's is very odd and is your problem. :(  Is your
> AP on apic id 1 when you booted up prior to having the HTT support?
> My guess is that it is.  According to Intel, when you have HTT cores,
> the APIC ID's of the cores in a physical processor are sequential.
> The typical SMP + HTT setup I've seen is a physical cpu at ID 0
> with it's 2nd core at ID 1 and the 2nd physical cpu at ID 6 with
> it's 2nd core at ID 7.  The HTT core enumeration code assumes that
> this is the case, and if it finds that any of the APIC ID's that
> should be HTT cores are already in use by another physical CPU, it
> doesn't turn on any of the HTT cores because it has no way of
> talking to them. :)
>
> My guess is that this is a problem with your motherboard.  You still
> have SMP, but it is just with one core per processor.


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