ULE status, invalid load, buildkernel times.

Milos Vyletel mv at rulez.sk
Sun Jul 22 09:15:50 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 05:55:08PM -0700, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> I have a patch available at:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/ulehtt.diff
> 
> This resolves issues in the code that handles HTT enabled processors and 
> also adds some ULE information to bootverbose on SMP systems.  Peter Wemm 
> has a seperate patch that fixes a bug where some amd64 cpus were still 
> being misidentified as HTT.  Those of you with invalid loads either have 
> Hyper-threading CPUs or misidentified amd cores.  You should expect 
> slightly poorer performance as long as your cores are misidentified but 
> the bad loads should be fixed.
> 
> I also believe that the buildkernel/world times are now significantly 
> improved.  If this is not the case for you please send a mail.  Any other 
> performance data is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff

Hi,

can you please point us to refered Peter Wemm's patch too? I can't find it with
google or on ~peter/.

Thanks
Milos


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