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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:46:02 +0000
From:      Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
To:        john@essenz.com, mikej@rogers.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6-stable and HTT P4
Message-ID:  <E1F4GR0-000CCB-3O@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <43E05432.1040102@rogers.com>

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> > Just got it to work though... Had to add 
> > machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1 to loader.conf in addition to 
> > hlt_logical_cpus=0
>
> Great. FYI, HTT will give you little or even negative performance benefits.

Heh - I still cant persuade my 6.0-RELEASE to *not* use hyperthreading!
have got hyperthreading_allowed set to 0, hlt_logical_cpus set to 1 and
it sttill shcedules things on 4 CPU's rather than 2.

-pcf.



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