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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:59:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw>
Subject:   Re: Hyperthreading and machdep.cpu_idle_hlt
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030131155903.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301311248180.45015-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On 31-Jan-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 31-Jan-2003 leafy wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:45:56PM -0500, Trish Lynch wrote:
>> >> I have the .dat's for you, unfortunately, the output is different, so
>> >> you'll have to modify the .cfg for gnuplot :)
>> >> 
>> >> -Trish
>> > I have HTT for my CPU, is there any "hack" to the BIOS to enable HyperThreading?
>> 
>> Having HTT does _not_ mean you actually have multiple cores in your physical CPU.
>> You will see a separate line in your dmesg giving the number of cores per CPU
>> if you do.  The BIOS really has nothing to do with this, it all comes from
>> registers returned from the CPUID instruction.
> 
> 
> 
> do you need an SMP kernel to see this?

No.

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