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On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 02:01:19PM -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> If you're looking to ship a single image that runs on a variety of
> platforms (say, you're pfsense, just say) and you want to set defaults
> that say "hey, i don't mind doing some processing on SMT, but HTT is
> no thanks) then how do you achieve that?

some platforms have SMT, some HTT, yes?
and some one socket, some multi-socket...
some 1Gbit NIC, some 2x10Gbit NIC, some 1 of 2x40Gbit NIC.
All of this need individual tuning. Or smart auto-tuning.
Yes, I have similar case. I am use smart auto-tuning (on first boot
after setup).