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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:25:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dual CPU detection problem
Message-ID:  <20041201162501.H71481@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720411300329249d4bf3@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <84dead720411300329249d4bf3@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joseph Koshy wrote:

> Strange problem.
>
> On an IBM xSeries 335 machine with TWO P4 HTT cpus (mptable, dmesg output
> enclosed) FreeBSD -CURRENT will sometimes detect both the physical CPUs
> and will sometimes detect only one.
>
> FreeBSD 5.3 reliably detects the 2 physical / 4 logical CPUs that are present.
>
> Any suggestions on how to debug this?

dmesg + mptable + acpidump output in both situations would be a good
start.

Sounds like one of the physical CPUs might be flakey; you see 2 CPUs since
you see the solitary core's hyperthreaded pair.

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Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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