Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-26 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 25/05/2011 20:13 Patrick Lamaiziere said the following: > Le Tue, 24 May 2011 16:21:08 +0300, > Andriy Gapon a écrit : > > Hello, > >> I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people >> use the following features: >> - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl >

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-25 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:27:47 +0200, Josh Carroll wrote: Whatever you do, please leave at least some way (at least a tunable) to enable/disable HTT - some workloads are better with, and some without it, and some BIOSes are unreliable in enabling/disabling it :) I noticed that disabling HT

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-25 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 24 May 2011 16:21:08 +0300, Andriy Gapon a écrit : Hello, > I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people > use the following features: > - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl If I remember well, these tunables were introduced because the paper of

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-24 Thread Josh Carroll
> Whatever you do, please leave at least some way (at least a tunable) to > enable/disable HTT - some workloads are better with, and some without it, > and some BIOSes are unreliable in enabling/disabling it :) I noticed that disabling HTT via the machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable resulted in

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 24/05/2011 15:21, Andriy Gapon wrote: I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people use the following features: - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl - machdep.hlt_logical_cpus tunable and sysctl - mp_watchdog kernel option If you are using any of the ab

[poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-24 Thread Andriy Gapon
I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people use the following features: - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl - machdep.hlt_logical_cpus tunable and sysctl - mp_watchdog kernel option If you are using any of the above, please let me know - better via a priv