Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:26:35 -0500 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [BUG?] Xeon with HyperThreading and linux-2.4.20-rc2 |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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