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Date:      Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:35:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: SMP problem on E7500 chipset
Message-ID:  <20020731143507.M54035-100000@dallben>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020731152336.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 31-Jul-2002 Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 igor_dorovskoy@agilent.com wrote:
> >
> >> Looks like you do have hyper threading support on in your BIOS.
> >> Turn it off to disable virtual CPU's in your Xeons
> >
> > Incidentally, anyone working on Intel P4 hyperthreading support?
>
> We already support it back to 3.0, though not necessarily in the
> most efficient manner.  5.0 will handle hyperthreading slightly
> better than 3.x and 4.x, but I expect that real support (as in,
> schedule threads onto CPU's more sanely so we balance load on
> physical processors) will be a 6.0 feature.

That will be Very Cool<tm>.  Thanks for the info, John.

Brandon D. Valentine
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