From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 16:12:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org 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 92A2616A438 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:12:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail6.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6722643D6D for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:12:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3869004 for multiple; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:10:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBFGCF6l069925; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:12:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:12:44 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20051215005253.90593.qmail@web32910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051215005253.90593.qmail@web32910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512151112.45625.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on server.baldwin.cx X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=1653887525 Cc: Subject: Re: Pentium-D and SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:12:33 -0000 On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:52 pm, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi; > > I installed FreeBSD-AMD64 on my New Dell Dimension 9150. This processor in > particular (820) has two cores but no hyperthreading: > > http://indigo.intel.com/compare_cpu/default.aspx?familyID=1&culture=en-US > > The dmesg (attached) is somewhat confusing though: > - It looks like hyperthreading is *detected* ??? You mean it has the HTT bit set in features? The bit just means you can ask it how many threads it has. CPUs without HTT but with the HTT cpuid feature just say they have 1 core. > - CPU #1 is "launched", so I guess CPU #0 was already running right? Yes. > - The coredumps at the end were caused by atlas-devel trying to find out > the processor I am using, looks like it only found one so it defaulted to > no threads.. I think it builds another (threaded) version afterwards so I'm > not sure what is really happening. ?? Missing attachment maybe? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org