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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] acpismp=force fix
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:54:08 +0000
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 12:46:38PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Certainly reliance on "acpismp=force" should be removed if it's crept
> back in.  But what should we do about "noht"?  Wave a fond goodbye,
> and remove it's associated code and Documentation from 2.4 and 2.5
> trees, rely on changing the BIOS setting instead?  Or bring it back
> into action?

for 2.4 it's no problem to honor it really code wise; and it's
useful for machines where you can't disable HT in the bios but where
your particular workload doesn't positively benefit from HT.