Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:59:39 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Arthur Hartwig <arthur.hartwig@nokia.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hyperthreading Issues (on Athlon64?) Message-ID: <p06230904c1518ddcf554@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <452AE62B.4000000@nokia.com> References: <20061009114520.1355.qmail@web8608.mail.in.yahoo.com> <452AE62B.4000000@nokia.com>
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At 10:15 AM +1000 10/10/06, Arthur Hartwig wrote:
>ext kumaresh pandian wrote:
>>Hi all
>>
>>
>> How do i Find if the CPU is Hyperthreading enabled or not? I have
>>tried using the mtables but i'm not able to figure it out.
>>
>Look for the HTT bit in the CPU features displayed when FreeBSD starts
>up. Here's an example from one of my systems, HTT is third from the
>right hand end of the CPU features list.
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
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>hartwig 1 10.09.2006-151040MPTable: <OEM ID PRODUCT ID >
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2794.59-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7
>
>Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>>
> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
>real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
>avail memory = 2100936704 (2003 MB)
Huh.
I just got a dual-core Athlon64 machine, and the features list for
it says:
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,
MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,
HTT>
---
My dmesg does not have the line about "Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs",
though. But I had been pretty sure the Athlon64 chips didn't have any
hyperthreading support. Why is the HTT there?
--
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Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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