From c0764f5c88c4bfdea6859cac0ca83f5e02048bba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 20:39:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] HTT logical processors are now enabled (not disabled) by default, so reflect this in the hardware notes. Approved by: re (implicitly) --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml index 1f5bd8401e22..8e377413f8fc 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware/i386/proc-i386.sgml @@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ additional physical processors; in other words, no attempt is made to optimize scheduling decisions given the shared resources between logical processors within the same CPU. Because this - naive scheduling can result in suboptimal performance, the logical - CPUs are halted by default at startup. They can be enabled with + naive scheduling can result in suboptimal performance, under + certain circumstances it may be useful to disable the logical + processors with the the machdep.hlt_logical_cpus sysctl variable. It is also possible to halt any CPU in the idle loop with the machdep.hlt_cpus sysctl variable. The