From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Mar 11 23:51:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8EF37B401; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from murmeldjur.it.su.se (murmeldjur.it.su.se [130.237.95.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67AF43F75; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnyberg@murmeldjur.it.su.se) Received: from murmeldjur.it.su.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by murmeldjur.it.su.se (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2C7ppci000247; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:51:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rnyberg@murmeldjur.it.su.se) Received: (from rnyberg@localhost) by murmeldjur.it.su.se (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h2C7ppwc000246; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:51:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:51:51 +0100 From: Richard Nyberg To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: hyperthreading randomness Message-ID: <20030312075151.GA211@murmeldjur.it.su.se> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Nyberg , John Baldwin , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org References: <20030311203003.GA216@murmeldjur.it.su.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:36:57PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > I'm not sure it's entirely safe since it doesn't verify that you > are at the top of a boundary when it looks downwards. Yes I know. Sorry about that :( Of course, I had to realize this just before going to bed ;) > Really > though, the current stuff is more of a quick hack to get it mostly > working for now. When the ACPI stuff gets done it won't really > matter anymore. I'd like to keep the current hack very conservative > since I'm making assumptions that I am not completely sure I am > allowed to make and I'd like to keep the number and scope of such > assumptions as small as possible. The patch was intented as a quick hack for people with the same "feature" as me ;) Anyway, if there really are anyone who needs it, you can get a revised patch at http://people.su.se/~rnyberg/bsd_patches/hyperquirk.diff. -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message