Robert Watson wrote:
So, are you suggesting that we should disable machdep.hyperthreading_allowed with ULE in 7.x and current to avoid confusion?

Possibly even without ULE.

I've verified - the tunable/sysctl works just fine with SCHED_4BSD in 7.1, so that I am not sure it's worth ripping it off.

Instead, I've re-implemented the feature differently - by disabling HT cores at detection time when SCHED_ULE is compiled in and machdep.hyperthreading_allowed is set to 0 in loader.conf. Patch for 7.1 is attached. Apart from the fact that it's not possible to change the setting at run-time, this version should be even better by not starting up HT cores in the first place.

I would appreciate if somebody familiar with the code in question can review the patch, particularly part that moves assign_cpu_ids() and start_all_aps() calls little bit further in the cpu_mp_start(). I need them there so that I can use hyperthreading_cpus in assign_cpu_ids().

Thanks in advance.

-Maxim
--- i386/i386/mp_machdep.c      2009-01-19 07:34:49.000000000 -0800
+++ /tmp/mp_machdep.c   2009-02-23 21:38:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@
        int     cpu_present:1;
        int     cpu_bsp:1;
        int     cpu_disabled:1;
+       int     cpu_hyperthread:1;
 } static cpu_info[MAX_APIC_ID + 1];
 int cpu_apic_ids[MAXCPU];
 
@@ -405,11 +407,6 @@
                    ("BSP's APIC ID doesn't match boot_cpu_id"));
        cpu_apic_ids[0] = boot_cpu_id;
 
-       assign_cpu_ids();
-
-       /* Start each Application Processor */
-       start_all_aps();
-
        /* Setup the initial logical CPUs info. */
        logical_cpus = logical_cpus_mask = 0;
        if (cpu_feature & CPUID_HTT)
@@ -457,6 +454,11 @@
                        hyperthreading_cpus = logical_cpus;
        }
 
+       assign_cpu_ids();
+
+       /* Start each Application Processor */
+       start_all_aps();
+
        set_interrupt_apic_ids();
 
        /* Last, setup the cpu topology now that we have probed CPUs */
@@ -471,18 +473,26 @@
 cpu_mp_announce(void)
 {
        int i, x;
+       const char *hyperthread;
 
        /* List CPUs */
        printf(" cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: %2d\n", boot_cpu_id);
        for (i = 1, x = 0; x <= MAX_APIC_ID; x++) {
                if (!cpu_info[x].cpu_present || cpu_info[x].cpu_bsp)
                        continue;
+               if (cpu_info[x].cpu_hyperthread) {
+                       hyperthread = "/HT";
+               } else {
+                       hyperthread = "";
+               }
                if (cpu_info[x].cpu_disabled)
-                       printf("  cpu (AP): APIC ID: %2d (disabled)\n", x);
+                       printf("  cpu (AP%s): APIC ID: %2d (disabled)\n",
+                           hyperthread, x);
                else {
                        KASSERT(i < mp_ncpus,
                            ("mp_ncpus and actual cpus are out of whack"));
-                       printf(" cpu%d (AP): APIC ID: %2d\n", i++, x);
+                       printf(" cpu%d (AP%s): APIC ID: %2d\n", i++,
+                           hyperthread, x);
                }
        }
 }
@@ -691,11 +701,24 @@
 {
        u_int i;
 
+       TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("machdep.hyperthreading_allowed",
+           &hyperthreading_allowed);
+
        /* Check for explicitly disabled CPUs. */
        for (i = 0; i <= MAX_APIC_ID; i++) {
                if (!cpu_info[i].cpu_present || cpu_info[i].cpu_bsp)
                        continue;
 
+               if (hyperthreading_cpus > 1 && i % hyperthreading_cpus != 0) {
+                       cpu_info[i].cpu_hyperthread = 1;
+#if defined(SCHED_ULE)
+                       if (hyperthreading_allowed == 0) {
+                               cpu_info[i].cpu_disabled = 1;
+                               continue;
+                       }
+#endif
+               }
+
                /* Don't use this CPU if it has been disabled by a tunable. */
                if (resource_disabled("lapic", i)) {
                        cpu_info[i].cpu_disabled = 1;
@@ -1410,6 +1433,12 @@
        if (error || !req->newptr)
                return (error);
 
+#ifdef SCHED_ULE
+       if (allowed != hyperthreading_allowed)
+               return (ENOTSUP);
+       return (error);
+#endif
+
        if (allowed)
                hlt_cpus_mask &= ~hyperthreading_cpus_mask;
        else
@@ -1454,8 +1483,6 @@
                 * of hlt_logical_cpus.
                 */
                if (hyperthreading_cpus_mask) {
-                       TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("machdep.hyperthreading_allowed",
-                           &hyperthreading_allowed);
                        SYSCTL_ADD_PROC(&logical_cpu_clist,
                            SYSCTL_STATIC_CHILDREN(_machdep), OID_AUTO,
                            "hyperthreading_allowed", CTLTYPE_INT|CTLFLAG_RW,
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