In the last episode (Apr 13), Florian Smeets said: > On 13.04.12 19:34, Alexander Best wrote: > > On Sat Apr 14 12, Mahesh Babu wrote: > >> How to disable a particular core in FreeBSD 9? How to enable it again? > > > > i don't think it's possible to do that in freebsd. what you can do is to > > disable SMP oder hyperthreading. alternatively you can assign a certain > > process to a certain core. > > > > i think there's a project to disable and enable specific cores on the > > fly. freebsd is pretty far behind regarding this feature. beos was > > able to do this anno 1998 or so afair. > > You can set the following in /boot/loader.conf > > hint.lapic.128.disabled=1 > hint.lapic.130.disabled=1 > > Where 128 and 130 are IDs of cores you want to disable, you can find the > IDs for your CPUs/cores in > > dmesg or /var/log/messages e.g. > > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 2 > cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 > cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 16 > > Enabling and disabling on the fly is not possible.
You can't completely disable a core, but you can tell the scheduler not to use it, via the cpuset command. For example, "cpuset -s 1 -l 0,1" will change the mask for cpuset 1 (the default set) to only allow cpus 0 and 1. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"