Re: P4 hyperthreading support?

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On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 17:45, Dave Goldblatt wrote:
> I know additional scheduler support for Intel's hyperthreading is in 
> 2.5.x, but I was under the impression that the later 2.4.x kernels would 
> detect a hyperthread-capable CPU as two logical processors;

they will
>
>  in my case 
> I've got a P4 3.06GHz CPU which only appears as a single processor under 
> 2.4.20-9smp, though the number of siblings in cpuinfo appears as 2.
> 
> I expected to see two processors.. any ideas?

the kernel depends on the bios to enumerate the cpus in order to find
them; if only 1 is found I'd suggest trying to find a bios upgrade; my
HT box needed one to find the second cpu.

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