8.1-PRERELEASE: CPU packages not detected correctly

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Jul 15 12:27:41 UTC 2010


Andriy Gapon wrote:
 > on 15/07/2010 14:58 Oliver Fromme said the following:
 > > Andriy Gapon wrote:
 > > > Could you please try to do the following?
 > > > 1. Fetch topo-12212009.tar from the top of this page:
 > > > http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-64-architecture-processor-topology-enumeration/
 > > > 2. Untar it and apply this patch to the code:
 > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/cpu-topology.diff
 > > > 3. Compile it by running sh mk_64.sh (supposing you have amd64 system installed)
 > > > 4. Run cpu_topology64.out and report back its output.
 > > 
 > > Ok, did that.  This tool seems to get it right, i.e. it
 > > detects 2 packages with 4 cores each.  Here's the output:
 > 
 > Great!
 > So perhaps you can now test jkim's patch posted in this thread?

Unfortunately, it didn't change.  Kernel output during boot
is still the same; it displays 1 package x 8 cores.

Best regards
   Oliver

PS:  "make kernel -j 10" took exactly 8 minutes on this box.

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