machdep.hlt_cpus not safe with ULE?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Mon Feb 21 20:41:40 UTC 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garrett Cooper" <gcooper at FreeBSD.org>
>    As a followup to this and based on discussions with other folks,
> the fact that it's using hlt to halt CPUs without rescheduling tasks /
> masking interrupts, etc is not good. So none of the *hlt* sysctls are
> really doing the right thing on x86.

Time to disable them until they are fixed properly then I would suggest?

    Regards
    Steve

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