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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com
Subject: Re: not fixed in 2.4.23-rc3 (was: Re: 2.4.22 SMP kernel build for hyper threading P4)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:00:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031124070016.GX22764@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1069654747.2812.689.camel@dhcppc4>

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 15:45, Eduard Bloch wrote:
>> #include <hallo.h>
>> * Brown, Len [Sun, Nov 23 2003, 03:16:11PM]:
>> > > weird 1+2xHT mode.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:19:07AM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> Please try CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8, or apply the patch below to 2.4.23.
> smp_boot_cpus() incorrectly assumes that Local APIC ID's are handed out
> 0,1,2...
> But they're handed out 0,1,6,7 on your system.  #6 happens to be your
> boot CPU, smp_boot_cpus() brings up #0 and #1, and never asks to boot #7
> -- thus 3 logical processors.  If #0 happened to be your boot processor,
> you'd get only 2 logical processors.

A similar (but more elaborate) fix is in 2.6.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-24  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-23 20:16 not fixed in 2.4.23-rc3 (was: Re: 2.4.22 SMP kernel build for hyper threading P4) Brown, Len
2003-11-23 20:45 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-11-24  6:19   ` Len Brown
2003-11-24  7:00     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-11-24 16:49       ` Len Brown
2003-11-24 22:55         ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-30  9:28     ` Eduard Bloch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-15 15:40 2.4.22 SMP kernel build for hyper threading P4 Job 317
2003-11-15 16:40 ` Eduard Bloch
2003-11-23 15:06   ` not fixed in 2.4.23-rc3 (was: Re: 2.4.22 SMP kernel build for hyper threading P4) Eduard Bloch

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