Forgive me if I should have posted this question to the SMP mailing list. I was reviewing the changelog for OpenBSD-current and came across the following:
"Disable Speedstep and p4tcc setperf mechanisms on SMP systems." Not knowing exactly what Speedstep was, I did some research and discovered it was an Intel technology for dynamic adjustment of processor speed. This seems like an excellent feature for systems requiring low power consumption (laptops, large scale server farms--Google, etc.). What I don't understand is why it would be disabled for SMP. Is this specific to OpenBSD? Is this something a developer should look into fixing (i.e. I'm a developer, I might want to fix it for the experience)? Brian
