RE: Hyperthreading Options in 2.4.19

Reed, Timothy A (timothy.a.reed@lmco.com)
Thu, 08 Aug 2002 06:55:26 -0400


Guys,
Thanks for the answers! In doing research on those options I too
found that they were not need for Hyperthreading, but I needed something
more to back up opinion.

Thanks Again.

Timothy Reed
Software Engineer\Systems Administrator
Lockheed Martin - NE & SS Syracuse
Email: timothy.a.reed@lmco.com

-----Original Message-----
From: J.A. Magallon [mailto:jamagallon@able.es]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 6:37 PM
To: Reed, Timothy A
Cc: Linux Kernel ML (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Hyperthreading Options in 2.4.19

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.

by

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