Re: Hyperthreading Options in 2.4.19

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2002.08.07 "Reed, Timothy A" wrote:
>Hello All,
>	I am going rounds with a sub-contractor of ours about what options
>should and should not be compiled into the kernel in order for
>Hyperthreading to work.  Can anyone make any suggestions and comments to the
>options (below)  that I am planning on enforcing:
>	MSR
>	MTRR
>	CPUID

I thikn none is needed for ht. Of course, mtrr raises performance.
The other are not needed, afaik.

>
>	Lilo.conf : acpismp=force?? 
>

True for old kernels, not needed anymore.

>	Are the following worth any thing of value to Hyperthreading:
>	Microcode
>	ACPI

No.

In summary, with 2.4.19 you do not have to do nothing to have hyperthreading.
Other useful options are 'noht' to disable ht, and 'idle=poll', that I think
improves latency.

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