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From: "Wilkins
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-server] HT on P4?
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:02:06
Message-Id: E4E12CD035E14A4AB8C36E0F4B7143F7277E7B@iu-mssg-mbx09.exchange.iu.edu
1 As someone else mentioned, my guess would be it's turned off on the board. If there's no bios setting, how about a jumper on the board? There has to be some way to turn it on/off.
2
3
4 -----Original Message-----
5 From: A. Khattri [mailto:ajai@××××.net]
6 Sent: Sun 9/25/2005 1:36 AM
7 To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
8 Cc:
9 Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] HT on P4?
10 On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Joao Patricio wrote:
11
12 > Did you enable SMP when you compiled your kernel?
13
14 Both SMP and SMT are enabled in this kernel:
15
16 # grep SMP /usr/src/linux/.config
17
18 # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
19 CONFIG_SMP=y
20 CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
21 CONFIG_X86_SMP=y
22
23 # grep SMT /usr/src/linux/.config
24
25 CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y
26
27
28
29 >
30 > Em Sexta, 23 de Setembro de 2005 23:05, o A. Khattri escreveu:
31 > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, kashani wrote:
32 > > > A. Khattri wrote:
33 > > > > I switched on SMP and HT when building my kernel but I see this among
34 > > > > the boot messages:
35 > > > >
36 > > > > CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
37 > > > > 0000441d 00000000 00000000
38 > > > > CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
39 > > > > 0000441d 00000000 00000000
40 > > > > monitor/mwait feature present.
41 > > > > using mwait in idle threads.
42 > > > > CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
43 > > > > CPU: L2 cache: 1024K
44 > > > > CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
45 > > >
46 > > > Is it possible it's disabled in the Bios? Some servers shipped that way
47 > > > when they first came out IIRC.
48 > >
49 > > I didn't find any BIOS setting unfortunately...
50 > >
51 > > This is a Supermicro 5013C-T server with a P4 (P4SCE?) board in it.
52 > >
53 > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo
54 > > processor : 0
55 > > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
56 > > cpu family : 15
57 > > model : 4
58 > > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
59 > > stepping : 1
60 > > cpu MHz : 2395.003
61 > > cache size : 1024 KB
62 > > fdiv_bug : no
63 > > hlt_bug : no
64 > > f00f_bug : no
65 > > coma_bug : no
66 > > fpu : yes
67 > > fpu_exception : yes
68 > > cpuid level : 5
69 > > wp : yes
70 > > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
71 > > cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor
72 > > ds_cpl cid xtpr
73 > > bogomips : 4718.59
74 > >
75 > >
76 > > --
77 >
78
79 --
80 wheel of reincarnation
81
82 [coined in a paper by T. H. Myer
83 and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm.
84 ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)] Term used to refer to a well-known
85 effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated
86 out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the
87 peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job,
88 then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two
89 asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function
90 back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.
91
92 Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in
93 graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in
94 communications and floating-point processors. Also known as `the
95 Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of
96 the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also blitter,
97 bit bang.
98
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