Re: ULE status, invalid load, buildkernel times.

From: Milos Vyletel <mv_at_rulez.sk>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:48:46 +0200
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:06:47AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Sunday 22 July 2007, Milos Vyletel wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 05:55:08PM -0700, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> > > I have a patch available at:
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ulehtt.diff
> > >
> > > This resolves issues in the code that handles HTT enabled
> > > processors and also adds some ULE information to bootverbose on SMP
> > > systems.  Peter Wemm has a seperate patch that fixes a bug where
> > > some amd64 cpus were still being misidentified as HTT.  Those of
> > > you with invalid loads either have Hyper-threading CPUs or
> > > misidentified amd cores.  You should expect slightly poorer
> > > performance as long as your cores are misidentified but the bad
> > > loads should be fixed.
> > >
> > > I also believe that the buildkernel/world times are now
> > > significantly improved.  If this is not the case for you please
> > > send a mail.  Any other performance data is appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeff
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > can you please point us to refered Peter Wemm's patch too? I can't
> > find it with google or on ~peter/.
> 
> You can extract it from here:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/p4-projects/2007-July/020058.html
> 
> Sorry I don't have it in a more convenient format.. I'm about to fall 
> asleep on my keyboard. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> 

No problem,

I've extracted it and made a patch. If someone is intrested, it's on

http://rulez.sk/~mv/cpu.patch

Thank you Peter
Received on Sun Jul 22 2007 - 09:48:50 UTC

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