ULE status, invalid load, buildkernel times.

[Peter Wemm]

On Sunday 22 July 2007, Milos Vyletel wrote:
> 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/.

You can extract it from here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/p4-projects/2007-July/020058.html

Sorry I don't have it in a more convenient format.. I'm about to fall 
asleep on my keyboard. :)

Cheers,
-Peter

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