Re: Hyperthreading - Found the answers

From: dean gaudet
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 13:04:52 EST



On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Russell "Elik" Rademacher wrote:

> Hello linux-kernel,
>
> Thanks folks. Apparently, the documentations are little buried under
> but apparently, needed to have boot time parameter as follows:
> acpismp=force to have the hyperthreading to show up properly.

fwiw, on my xeon box i need to use "acpi=ht" or else the acpi code causes
80000 interrupts per second, even when idle. (this is with 2.4.22, on a
tyan 2723 with whatever their latest bios was as of three or four months
ago.)

-dean
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