Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org, beemern <beemern@ksu.edu> Subject: Re: For those with P4 SMP problems.. Message-ID: <XFMail.20020923094001.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3D8CBE7D.877EA3A4@mindspring.com>
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On 21-Sep-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > beemern wrote: >> i'm preparing to start in on Terry Lambert's suggestion, however, >> perhaps you (anyone) could clear up a few minor questions.. >> >> -he says other systems are "matching CPUs started at the time of the >> check" >> ..matching them with what? > > The theory is that the BIOS has the corect information, but in the > wrong order, and FreeBSD cares about the order, but Linux and Windows > do not, because they;ve performed an additional optimization that lets > them start the APs simultaneously, and a side effect of this is that > they don't care about order of start, they just care *that* they start. Except that in this case we have a 2-cpu system so we are only starting one additional processor. Hence, this entire argument is irrelevant. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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