Problem with HT support in 5.4

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Fri May 27 18:28:26 PDT 2005


On Fri, 27 May 2005 09:30:46 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
>> 
>> Oh, wait, it is probably just the last HT security patch,
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc.
>
>hmm... So basically, SMP can be enabled, but it won't use HT even if it
>sees a capable processor? 

Unless you use the ULE scheduler (which is broken and buggy on
RELENG_5) there is no benefit to using HT. In fact, it will make some
things worse.

	---Mike
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