hype(r)threading

2003-03-03 Thread Petri Helenius
I seem to want to quite the opposite what other people would like to happen, we have a supermicro P4DPR board with two Xeon´s. Since lately the kernel seems to want to launch the virtual cores regardless of BIOS setting of HyperThreading being [Disabled]. Any ideas how to disable the cores since

Re: hype(r)threading

2003-03-03 Thread Trish Lynch
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Petri Helenius wrote: I seem to want to quite the opposite what other people would like to happen, we have a supermicro P4DPR board with two Xeon´s. Since lately the kernel seems to want to launch the virtual cores regardless of BIOS setting of HyperThreading being

Re: hype(r)threading

2003-03-03 Thread Petri Helenius
After some reading around I ended up putting a return; on top of the mptable_hyperthread_fixup function and my performance is back. Setting the sysctl helps some but it does not really fix the performance issues. I would like to make the suggestion of making the HT fixup maybe a default but allow

Re: hype(r)threading

2003-03-03 Thread John Baldwin
On 03-Mar-2003 Petri Helenius wrote: After some reading around I ended up putting a return; on top of the mptable_hyperthread_fixup function and my performance is back. Setting the sysctl helps some but it does not really fix the performance issues. I would like to make the suggestion of

Re: hype(r)threading

2003-03-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Thanks, that´s greatly appreciated. Pete On 03-Mar-2003 Petri Helenius wrote: After some reading around I ended up putting a return; on top of the mptable_hyperthread_fixup function and my performance is back. Setting the sysctl helps some but it does not really fix the performance