Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264248AbTEOURn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 16:17:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264249AbTEOURn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 16:17:43 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:20177 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264248AbTEOURl (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 16:17:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 13:26:31 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Bill Davidsen Cc: David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com Subject: Re: 2.5 kernels fail to start second CPU Message-ID: <20030515202631.GU8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Bill Davidsen , David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com References: <20030515184445.GQ8978@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1619 Lines: 40 On Thu, 15 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> What on earth are you getting on about? On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:26:36PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I want to benchmark the box using one or two CPUs, with and without > hyperthreading, as listed in the configurations above. To do this I want > to use the boot options also listed in the original post above. I can > reboot the box remotely but I can't physically remove a cpu to get the > single cpu+ht config, so I'm looking for boot line options to provide > that. Please describe the following: (1) what options you passed (.config if it differs between boots) (2) how many cpus you expected (3) how many cpus you got for whatever you're doing that appears to go wrong. On Thu, 15 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> ia32 is utter crap with respect to power management, virtualization, >> and generalized firmware. >> If you don't have remote power management, buy it in whatever form >> possible. On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:26:36PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I'm not trying to manage the power, it's not a laptop, I'm trying to run > benchmarks as noted in the first sentence of my question. I don't see > how you got from there to virtualization from how to start (or not) cpus. It sounded like what you were talking about. Maybe I get too many people pushing feature requests as bugs. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/