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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: "Reed, Timothy A" <timothy.a.reed@lmco.com>
Cc: "Linux Kernel ML (E-mail)" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Hyperthreading Options in 2.4.19
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:36:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807223636.GC1537@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9EFD49E2FB59D411AABA0008C7E675C009D8DEE3@emss04m10.ems.lmco.com>; from timothy.a.reed@lmco.com on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 20:22:05 +0200


On 2002.08.07 "Reed, Timothy A" wrote:
>Hello All,
>	I am going rounds with a sub-contractor of ours about what options
>should and should not be compiled into the kernel in order for
>Hyperthreading to work.  Can anyone make any suggestions and comments to the
>options (below)  that I am planning on enforcing:
>	MSR
>	MTRR
>	CPUID

I thikn none is needed for ht. Of course, mtrr raises performance.
The other are not needed, afaik.

>
>	Lilo.conf : acpismp=force?? 
>

True for old kernels, not needed anymore.

>	Are the following worth any thing of value to Hyperthreading:
>	Microcode
>	ACPI

No.

In summary, with 2.4.19 you do not have to do nothing to have hyperthreading.
Other useful options are 'noht' to disable ht, and 'idle=poll', that I think
improves latency.

by

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-08-07 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-07 18:22 Hyperthreading Options in 2.4.19 Reed, Timothy A
2002-08-07 17:39 ` Renato
2002-08-07 22:36 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
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2002-08-08 10:55 Reed, Timothy A

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