Re: Dual CPU detection problem

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:25:58 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joseph Koshy wrote:

> Strange problem.
>
> On an IBM xSeries 335 machine with TWO P4 HTT cpus (mptable, dmesg output
> enclosed) FreeBSD -CURRENT will sometimes detect both the physical CPUs
> and will sometimes detect only one.
>
> FreeBSD 5.3 reliably detects the 2 physical / 4 logical CPUs that are present.
>
> Any suggestions on how to debug this?

dmesg + mptable + acpidump output in both situations would be a good
start.

Sounds like one of the physical CPUs might be flakey; you see 2 CPUs since
you see the solitary core's hyperthreaded pair.

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Received on Wed Dec 01 2004 - 23:25:59 UTC

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