<OT> I love my wife...

[Jerry McBride]

On Friday 30 December 2005 23:38, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 13:17, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 11:08, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > > HT is an odd beast. Running top, it shows two cpus, total bogomips is
> > > like 11000, but hardly a speedboat by anymeans. Running 2.6.14.x kernel
> > > with smp and ht turned on and well... not real impressive. For the mix
> > > of apps I run, it's far smoother when running smp turned off.
> > >
> > > Another side note, I've been all over the net, looking for smp aware
> > > audio drivers for atiix and there are none. So, no audio when
> > > tinkeering with smp...
> > >
> > > That aside, I'm taking the pickup down to the local liquor store...
> > > anybody need anything? :')
> >
> > POI,
> >
> > I'm not running HT (and not sure if I've got something even capable at
> > the moment), but how do you enable it in Linux?  Just booting with SMP
> > kernel? Is it a sysctl/proc setting?
>
> Running the 2.6.14.2 kernel and a HT aware P4 here and all that needs to be
> done is to compile smp and smt into the kernel... then reboot the new
> kernel. If you've got fb support in kernel and used to see one penguin at
> boot time, you'll see two penguins with an smp enabled kernel.
>

As a side note, just installed 2.6.14-ck7 from the CK source tree. Once that's 
installed with smp support enabled and recompiling alsa aitix sound driver, I 
now have working sound with smp enable. This hyper thread thing is still all 
snake-oil and magice as I notice no performance difference and perhaps even a 
loss....


Jerry