Re: Processor cores not properly detected/activated?

2014-05-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
Im about to start the process of creating a cpuid_t and peppering it around the source tree. Too many odd places use u_char as a cpuid and it's going to be limiting. -a On 27 May 2014 21:11, Jia-Shiun Li wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Tim Bishop wrote: >> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 0

Re: Processor cores not properly detected/activated?

2014-05-27 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Tim Bishop wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 09:03:12PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote: >> Yeah, I think so. It seems like a GENERIC kernel ought to be able to >> handle the biggest commonly available quad socket systems. Anything >> with more than 4 sockets, though, is

[Testing request] Enabling x86 serial login terminals

2014-05-27 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
The attached patch enables login shells on ttyu0 if ttyu0 is a kernel console. It should preserve existing behavior (i.e. have no shell) otherwise. Testing would be appreciated. If no problem reports are received, I will commit this on Friday. Thanks! -Nathan Index: etc/etc.amd64/ttys =

Re: Change top's notion of idle processes / threads

2014-05-27 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:43:56 am Ed Maste wrote: > On 26 May 2014 11:51, Ed Maste wrote: > > > > The change in the patch is good, the new behaviour is much more > > usable. Note that we don't currently define "idle" in top(8); for > > this change maybe we should just state that non-idle proce

Re: Change top's notion of idle processes / threads

2014-05-27 Thread Ed Maste
On 26 May 2014 11:51, Ed Maste wrote: > > The change in the patch is good, the new behaviour is much more > usable. Note that we don't currently define "idle" in top(8); for > this change maybe we should just state that non-idle processes may > report 0% CPU due to rounding. That said, I've disc