How is hyperthreading handled on amd64?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 13 20:32:24 UTC 2006


On Monday 13 March 2006 15:04, Bill Moran wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:06:34 -0500
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > > I can't argue that the boot messages don't seem to show anything to
> > > indicate that a second logical CPU was found.
> > 
> > Grab the dmesg from /var/run/dmesg.boot rather than /var/log/messages
> > please.
> 
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> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p5 #1: Fri Mar 10 16:57:56 EST 2006
>     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DB64
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz (2992.71-MHz K8-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Stepping = 1
>   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>>
>   AMD Features=0x20000800<SYSCALL,LM>
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> real memory  = 2147221504 (2047 MB)
> avail memory = 2066378752 (1970 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE BKC  >
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1

This is a dmesg from an SMP kernel this time. :)

Can you provide the output from 'sysctl machdep'?

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