FreeBSD 5 - What Options for SMP Kernel? -- SOLVED
Drew Tomlinson
drew at mykitchentable.net
Mon Jul 11 18:55:46 GMT 2005
On 7/10/2005 11:55 PM Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
>On 7/11/05, Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
>
>
>>I just built my first 5.4-RELEASE system. I want a SMP kernel. The
>>GENERIC kernel conf file contains this line:
>>
>>device apic # I/O apic
>>
>>According to NOTES, this is all that's required to build an SMP kernel.
>>
>>
>
>I don't see any mention of "this is all that's required" ?
>
>
OK, NOTES doesn't say that explicitly. But neither does it mention any
additional option(s) that ARE required which leads one to believe that
"this IS all that's required".
>>However my dmesg does not indicate that both processors are being used.
>>In version 4, these two lines were required:
>>
>>options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
>>options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
>>
>>I've searched Google but haven't found any definitive answers. Exactly
>>what lines do I need in my kernel conf and how can I verify both
>>processors are being used?
>>
>>
>
>If you look in the usual place /usr/src/sys/i386/conf you will see a
>SMP file that includes the option SMP for the default SMP enabled
>GENERIC kernel. It would make sense to put that option along with apic
>in your custom SMP kernel.
>
>To verify after rebooting do a 'dmesg |grep CPU' and it should show
>something along the lines of:
>
>CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (3056.82-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
>FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>
>
Thanks for the pointer. I've added the SMP option and all is working.
Cheers,
Drew
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