2001-11-02 23:25:55

by Christian Lavoie

Subject: Disabling CPUs -- at runtime?

Is it possible to disable a CPU on a dual machine while the kernel is
running? (Intel PIIIs, Asus motherboards -- VIA686B based)

Parsing of the relevant documentation didn't find an answer...

Yours Truly,
Christian Lavoie
[email protected]

2001-11-02 23:35:25

by Randy.Dunlap

Subject: Re: Disabling CPUs -- at runtime?

Christian Lavoie wrote:
>
> Is it possible to disable a CPU on a dual machine while the kernel is
> running? (Intel PIIIs, Asus motherboards -- VIA686B based)
>
> Parsing of the relevant documentation didn't find an answer...

There's a patch [out of date :( ] at
sourceforge.net/projects/lhcs/ that does this (CPU online/offline).

~Randy

2001-11-03 01:57:08

by Tim Hockin

Subject: Re: Disabling CPUs -- at runtime?

"Randy.Dunlap" wrote:

> There's a patch [out of date :( ] at
> sourceforge.net/projects/lhcs/ that does this (CPU online/offline).

pset allows this, though pset has not been fully ported to 2.4.x yet...


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Tim Hockin
Systems Software Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances
[email protected]