no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

Mark Blackman mark at exonetric.com
Fri Jan 13 16:48:24 UTC 2012


On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:30, Marco Beishuizen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I have in my boot messages:
> ...
> root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not exist.
> root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed does not exist.
> ...
> 
> So isn't hyperthreading not available anymore in FreeBSD 9?

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/9.0.0/UPDATING?r1=222852&r2=222853&

Seems to imply HT is enabled by default and new sysctls are used to take 
logical CPUs offline.

How many CPUs does your boot message suggest FreeBSD 9 is reporting?

- Mark


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