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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Steffen Persvold <sp@scali.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Xeon with HyperThreading and linux-2.4.20-rc2
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:26:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021120082635.C1498@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211201417000.13800-100000@sp-laptop.isdn.scali.no>; from sp@scali.com on Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:27:20PM +0100


On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:27:20PM +0100, Steffen Persvold wrote:
> 
> Sure, the bios has this option (and it works). I just believed the 'noht' 
> option would disable it from a kernel perspective. I understand that if 
> the MP table lists 4 processors, the kernel must think it is 4 processors 
> and enable them. But what is the purpose of the 'noht' option ? If it is 
> to avoid scanning the ACPI table for CPUs, wouldn't it be less confusing 
> to call it something like 'acpismp=disable', since you apparently can't 
> disable the siblings anyway (when they are also listed in the MP table) ?

in theory we can, at least with the O(1) scheduling infrastructure
it's easy. it's just that nobody cared enough so far to do it

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-15 18:03 Every semaphore call results in "uninterruptable sleep" Manfred Spraul
2002-11-16 13:26 ` Xeon with HyperThreading and linux-2.4.20-rc2 Steffen Persvold
2002-11-19 21:09   ` [BUG?] " Steffen Persvold
2002-11-19 21:42     ` Hugh Dickins
2002-11-20  9:56       ` Steffen Persvold
2002-11-20 12:53         ` Hugh Dickins
2002-11-20 13:04           ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-11-20 13:27             ` Steffen Persvold
2002-11-20 13:26               ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-20 15:50 Nakajima, Jun
2002-11-20 16:00 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-11-20 16:55   ` Alan Cox

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