Re: 2.6.32.1 kernel configuration only seeing 1 core on Intel E5540 CPU

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Hi Carsten.

Yes, the custom kernel is a 32-bit variant. However, the Ubuntu and CentOS systems I loaded are also 32-bit. Or so I think they are... I don't recall explicitly downloading the 64-bit variations of those OSs.

As far as using .1 instead of .15, I can try using a more recent revision to help fix bugs that may exist.. however due to some OS constraints I don't think I can go that far. At least not without using custom patches.

For poserity's sake, let's assume all kernels I've used are 32-bit. How would the 2.6.28 (and 2.6.18) kernels support them, but the 2.6.32 that I'm using wouldn't?

Thanks,
Kurt

Carsten Aulbert wrote:
Hi Kurt

On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:53:46 Kurt Newman wrote:
I've loaded this same i7 Nehalem machine with CentOS 5.3
(2.6.18-128.el5PAE), Ubuntu 9.04 (2.6.28-11-generic), and a modified
distro with a custom kernel (2.6.32.1).

The CentOS and Ubuntu kernels find all 4 cores just fine; however, my
custom kernel only finds 1.  I've enabled the following:

 - SMP
 - X86_BIGSMP (systems with more than 8 cpus)
 - X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM (extended x86 platform)
 - SCHED_SMT (hyper-threading)
 - SCHED_MC (Multi-core scheduler)
 - and varied between M686 (Pentium Pro) and MCORE2 (newer Xeon)

Just guessing, but could the CentOS and Ubuntu Kernel be a 64bit variant, while your custom one is 32bit? (also .1 is heavily outdated .15 is the current which apparently fixes several bugs).

I've not been using 32bit kernel for a couple of years and never with a multi-
core system thus just poking into the dark here.

HTH

Carsten
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