Jun
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjanv@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:04 AM
> To: Hugh Dickins
> Cc: Steffen Persvold; Jun Nakajima; Arjan van de Ven; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [BUG?] Xeon with HyperThreading and linux-2.4.20-rc2
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 12:53:04PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > I know too little to comment definitively, but it's my understanding
> > that a dual HT machine should only show 2 processors in its MP table,
> > their siblings only appearing through analysis of the ACPI tables.
> >
> > Whether it's that your MP table has been wrongly set up, or that
> > you've really been given 4 processors when you only asked for 2
> > (sue your supplier!), I cannot say. I've copied Jun at Intel
> > and Arjan at RedHat, and hope they can shed more light on this.
>
> Linux has zero problem with a sane MP table that lists all
> CPU's. Intel normally seems to recommend against it (maybe N3.51 doesn't
> like it or so) but it's all fair as far as I'm concerned.
> The bios is supposed to offer you a choice
> to disable hyperthreading, use that ;)
>
> Greetings,
> Arjan van de Ven
>
>
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