Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-24 Thread Dev Op
Hi, Kevin! Yes, I have already disabled hw.smt. Thanks! The reason was well described in Mark Kettenis' commit message ( https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html). About the CPU. Earlier, the OS installer saw a single processor with no cores. After updating the BIOS

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
In case you missed Stuarts email that also mentioned that you were booting the uni processor kernel. Then I will re-mention that HT, if still re-enabled by you, was disabled by default for security reasons (hunch) on OpenBSD. Linux came to realise issues later, but decided to stick with insecure

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-18 Thread Dev Op
You are absolutely right! Now I see all the cores! Thank you, guys! чт, 18 нояб. 2021 г. в 16:28, Christer Solskogen < christer.solsko...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 1:50 PM Dev Op wrote: > >> Updated BIOS to the latest version for this server - P58 (08/16/2015). All >> the same.

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-18 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 1:50 PM Dev Op wrote: > Updated BIOS to the latest version for this server - P58 (08/16/2015). All > the same. Tried changing the parameter MPS Table Mode in BIOS (the option > was set to Disabled), after setting the value to Full Table APIC, dmesg > changed, but the

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-18 Thread Dev Op
Updated BIOS to the latest version for this server - P58 (08/16/2015). All the same. Tried changing the parameter MPS Table Mode in BIOS (the option was set to Disabled), after setting the value to Full Table APIC, dmesg changed, but the cores still did not appear: OpenBSD 7.0 (GENERIC) #224: Thu

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021/11/18 12:58, Dev Op wrote: > When upgrading OpenBSD 7.0/amd64, unfortunately, there is no bsd.mp among the > presented set of > files. Why? :( Although, it is in the image. EM64T (Intel 64) is definitely  > supported by Intel > (R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430. There was nothing strange when

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-18 Thread Dev Op
When upgrading OpenBSD 7.0/amd64, unfortunately, there is no bsd.mp among the presented set of files. Why? :( Although, it is in the image. EM64T (Intel 64) is definitely supported by Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430. There was nothing strange when installing the distribution kit. I downloaded

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021-11-17, Dev Op wrote: > Hi all! > > I was dealing with one router and faced with the fact that I did not see > hypertrading after installing OpenBSD 7.0. I came across an email > https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html, > where I read hypertrading was disabled

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-17 Thread Crystal Kolipe
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:00:10AM +0300, Dev Op wrote: > I was dealing with one router and faced with the fact that I did not see > hypertrading after installing OpenBSD 7.0. I came across an email > https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html, > where I read

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-17 Thread Łukasz Moskała
W dniu 17.11.2021 o 10:53, Dev Op pisze: omg.. damn autocorrect! s/hypertrading/Hyper-threading/ :) Sometimes words change their meaning. I'm laughing. Sorry for that. ср, 17 нояб. 2021 г. в 11:00, Dev Op : Hi all! I was dealing with one router and faced with the fact that I did not see

Re: How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-17 Thread Dev Op
omg.. damn autocorrect! s/hypertrading/Hyper-threading/ :) Sometimes words change their meaning. I'm laughing. Sorry for that. ср, 17 нояб. 2021 г. в 11:00, Dev Op : > Hi all! > > I was dealing with one router and faced with the fact that I did not see > hypertrading after installing OpenBSD

How to check that HT is working and used?

2021-11-17 Thread Dev Op
Hi all! I was dealing with one router and faced with the fact that I did not see hypertrading after installing OpenBSD 7.0. I came across an email https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html, where I read hypertrading was disabled for Intel processors running on